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...original, 1992 movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 1998, after a bad run of TV movies and short-lived series, she auditioned for the role that turned her career around. Director Kimberly Peirce tested "every butch lesbian and transsexual out there" for Brandon before watching a tape from Swank. "She was beautifully androgynous--boy jaw, boy eyes, boy ears," recalls Peirce. "More important, she showed you she loved being Brandon. She was believable...
This past September 17, a bleachers-clearing brawl erupted at the MacArthur-Eisenhower football game in central Illinois. Seven Decatur high school students participated in the mlee and were consequently expelled from school. Their participation in the rioting is not in dispute--in fact, it was captured on video tape--and if it were not for one entirely incidental detail, there just punishment would probably have been carried out without protest. Unfortunately for Decatur school officials, the students they expelled happen to be black...
...Asians account for a disproportionate percentage of the honor roll, should we assume that they are the beneficiaries of school board favoritism? There may be complicating factors that land black students in trouble, but those factors do not necessarily include administrative racism. Rather than defending seven men caught on tape fomenting a brawl, perhaps Jackson should be devoting the same energy to building an after-school program for disadvantaged youth in Decatur...
...wears on, and news reports show that not even China is having problems, their daughter Danielle, 12, is the first to lose interest. "Whatever happens, happens," she says, after singing along to a Sheryl Crow tape. "We won't have to go grocery shopping for a while." And while Bruce, 45, is still talking about being wary of strangers from neighboring Youngstown coming to loot his stash, his wife Diane, 42, is already contemplating their massive store of canned food. "I'm going to save on groceries," she says, determined to eat their 12 cans of Spam, disaster...
Just look at the year the century was born. The Paris Exposition in 1900 (50 million visitors, more than the entire population of France) featured wireless telegraphs, X rays and tape recorders. "It is a new century, and what we call electricity is its God," wrote the romantic historian Henry Adams from Paris...