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Bonfili and Coffey seemed optimistic in spite of the meeting's meager turnout. "People realized we'd be talking about these resolutions Sunday and didn't want to give up another night," Coffey said...
Evil has many faces in Nicky Silver's new iron-toothed comedy, but who is Silver's real devil? There are at least four strong candidates by the time the bodies stop piling up. There is the father, Arthur Duncan (Dennis Creaghan) who neglected his son, slept around to spite his wife and molested his daughter, Emma, throughout her childhood, leaving her short and long term memories permanently repressed. Or maybe the mother Grace Duncan (Marian Mercer) who molested her son, Todd (Christopher Collet), driving him to the street where he contracts AIDS. Or for that matter, the family friend...
...organization supports affirmative action despite his acknowledgement that many, perhaps most, Chinese immigrant families oppose it. Der thinks he knows what's best for Asian Americans in spite of themselves...
...meantime, parents want better schools now. And in spite of the obstacles, they are organizing charter schools in droves and flocking to what few exist. Principal David Lehman of West Michigan Academy of Environmental Science, near Grand Rapids, has a sheaf of applications several inches thick for the year 1997, though his school has no track record. This summer he got a letter from Amy and Ron Larva of Grand Rapids. Their child was not yet born, they wrote, but they wanted to reserve a kindergarten spot for the year...
...instead of choosing the pieces themselves, the curators turned to 23 Native American "selectors," whose personal reflections take precedence over academic labels. The Ojibwe canoemaker Earl Nyholm presents a brace of his tribe's exquisitely beaded bandolier bags, including one decorated with a Stars-and-Stripes motif. In spite of history, Nyholm recalls how the flag and the Fourth of July were readily adapted into Ojibwe culture and ceremony...