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...this is known as going all in. First, the movie is an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane, who also wrote Mystic River, which Clint Eastwood put on film to much critical acclaim. Comparisons are inevitable. Second, the movie features imperiled children, spectacularly vulgar language and the urban poor of Boston, none of which scream must-see. Third, he cast his younger brother Casey as the lead, a private detective hired to find the missing child. Unless the kid nails the role, it looks like nepotism. Lastly, if the film does poorly, the title alone will be like headline...
...pals after hand-washing the dinner dishes. Nobody felt slighted, and nobody called child protective services. How sad and ironic that television - primarily responsible for making a mishmash of family life - should inadvertently be the one to call attention to the current sorry state of affairs by dragging the poor little ones off to a ghost town all by themselves. Don't adults get it? Kids nowadays live in ghost towns without ever having to leave home. Greg Joseph, GLENDALE, ARIZ...
...August. In Kumar and Ermakov’s first match, they faced No. 12 Blake Strode and Colin Mascall from Arkansas. Playing nervously early in the match, the Harvard team lost its serve. Down a break at 7-4, Kumar and Ermakov held their serve and then, thanks to poor serving on their opponents’ part, broke the Razorbacks. With the match back on serve at 7-6, the Crimson pair forced a tiebreaker, which, after going down, 5-4, they eventually took, 7-5. “The 7-5 game was the critical game...
...health insurance rose in 2006 for the sixth year in a row to 47 million–almost one in six Americans–and the number of uninsured children stands at 8.7 million, this veto is inexcusable. SCHIP was founded in 1997 to help provide subsidized insurance for poor children. As the number of uninsured adults has climbed in the past decade, SCHIP has helped cut the rate of uninsured children whose families’ incomes are less than double of the federal poverty level from 23% in 1997 to 16% today. The proposed expansion of SCHIP would have...
Dedicating his time to creating positive change, Hanzich volunteered at nursing homes and provided Spanish translation services to the poor at a Harvard Law School legal services clinic...