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...would not think that in such a community there would be difficulty in keeping children in line. But the overwhelming majority of parents in Lockney do not believe that they are up to the task and want the government to find out if their kids are druggies. In spite of there being no evidence of significant juvenile drug use in the town, a cloud of suspicion hangs heavy over students in grades six through 12 in Lockney Independent School District. Believing that the best way to combat teenage drug use is to force every...
Everyone seemed to agree that in spite of what Kleyman said was a weekend of 20-hour workdays for the main organizers, the event was worth...
...spite of the momentum, female pugilists have yet to win the hearts of some boxing "purists" like Sugar. HBO will not air women's boxing, partly because of its paucity of A-list fighters. "It's natural for a young sport," says CNN/SI boxing analyst Steve Farhood. "But the thin talent pool prohibits consistent, well-matched bouts." More to the point, says Vitiello, "promoters still see women as a sideshow. There is talent out there. But to get air time, you have to be a Playboy bunny or have a famous name...
Relations between the two men skid into a series of affronts, real or perceived, while Breege, Brennan's younger sister, looks on with mounting dread. She loves her brother but also feels, in spite of herself, drawn to the stranger. When Brennan senses her interest, he strikes her and accuses her of siding with the enemy...
...successful on the London stage, where he was deftly skewering the hypocrisies and pretensions of the very social order that made up his adoring audiences. If this production tries a little too hard to be innovative and pleasing to its audience, and comes up a little too conventional in spite of it all, the laughs are still plentiful, the play chirps along heartily, and Oscar Wilde's genius and the perfection of his little "earnest" gem still manage to penetrate the thickest of skin with laser-quality incisiveness...