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...violating generally accepted accounting principles. The firm, which severed its ties to Lincoln in 1988, denies this. Possible penalties include loss or suspension of license, or probation. "Audit firms are under pressure to please the client," says deputy attorney general Michael Granen. "They've got to learn to just...
Others appear to be getting even less. And that is interfering with their ability to learn, contend teachers, who say they are confronting more and more draggy pupils, even in elementary school. Sleepy youngsters are arriving late to class, forgetting assignments, moving at a snail's pace from task to task, and sometimes dropping their head on their desk to catch a few winks...
Goldberg and Spacek perform their good deeds without undue condescension, and Dwight Schultz is really fine as Spacek's husband, teetering between propriety and principle. But no actor's art can disguise the simplemindedness of this tract or the stodginess with which it is dramatized. What are audiences to learn about today's racial antagonisms from a long-ago tug of war between saints (the black underclass) and demons (the Alabama plutocracy)? The movie plays like a Christmas card whose sentiment is noble but whose poetry is doggerel...
Mary is not so fortunate. She is one of three people that night who learn they have tested positive. She starts crying as Russo tries to comfort her. "You guys always listen," Mary sobs. "You always find the time to let us know you care." They counsel her for about 15 minutes and then drive the van to a McDonald's for a hamburger and a Coke. Afterward they have no choice but to drop her off on the street, where she heads back to work...
Principal Peters chafes at the notion of the integrated classroom as the sole avenue to sound education. "Forget the idea that black children can't learn unless they're sitting next to a white child," she argues. "Some values are universal, like self-love, respect, integrity and perseverance." She incorporates seven such principles into a candle-lighting ceremony at the beginning of each school year for the new eighth-graders. "We tell them, 'This is your beginning of becoming young black adults. There is nothing wrong with...