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...Scottsboro Boys-style docudrama of racial injustice in the '30s but as a daughter's loving evocation of her dad, seen through a child's eyes. This is the perspective that Foote's Oscar-winning script faithfully transposed to the screen, and that Mary Badham, who played Scout Finch, embodied with such unaffected clarity that, at 10, she received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. As for Mulligan, no one has cited him for anything but the sensitive handling of story, actors, camera and mood...
Part of that approach involves reducing the number of local Girl Scout councils from 312 to 109 through mergers. In some cases, the newly merged councils have more facilities than they need. For example, when Camp Daisy moved under the umbrella of the Kansas City, Mo., council, officers took a cold look at the rustic horse barn. The council already has a state-of-the-art Scout Equestrian center two hours away, which made Daisy's horse program an easy target. (The Scouts are still trying to figure out just what to do with Daisy's 23 horses...
...That includes Camp Oakledge, a 420-acre lakefront retreat in the Missouri Ozarks with a mile of shoreline. To some, "rested" is just a way of saying that the camps will be sold. "It's difficult, but it's necessary to ensure the future of this organization," says Girl Scout spokeswoman Gina Garvin of the Kansas City area. Camps cost the council $1.7 million last year, so something has to give, she explains...
...handbooks guide the "journeys," offering exercises in critical thinking, ethical decision making, "assessing team dynamics" and "community asset mapping." Is Juliette Low rolling in her grave as camps close down to make way for jazzier Web content and global networking? Lee Ann Maley, a Girl Scout executive in South Carolina, believes that the founder would approve of the new model of assertive girlhood. "We're doing more with science, technology, engineering and math," Maley says. "I think Juliette Low would be standing up and blowing her horn - the girls...
...increasingly brutal attitude of white settlers towards the Apache: "The civilian scout leader [King] Woolsey, for example, was blunt in his embrace of such tactics. 'As there has been a great deal said about my killing women and children,' he wrote to the territory's military authorities, 'I will state to you that we killed in this Scout 22 Bucks 5 women & 3 children. We would have killed more women but [did not]owing to having attacked in the day time when the women were at work gathering Mescal. It sir is next to impossible to prevent killing squaws...