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While “On Chesil Beach” deviated from the source material in effective ways  Mr McEwan seemed reluctant to do the same with “The Children Act”. Here  the internal narrative is simply layered onto a new medium. It doesn’t work (although Emma Thompson’s performance makes it watchable).  Fiona Maye (Ms Thompson)  is a well-respected judge  arrives at home to  her  husband Jack (Stanley Tucci) telling  her  that he would like to have an affair  and that Fiona  if  she  cares about him  will tolerate it. This leads to the film’s single flashback: as  she  lays awake at night   her  imagination reaches back to happier times and to a moment of pure joy when he surprised  her  with a new piano. Unlike in “On Chesil Beach”  the flashback here adds little to illuminate their predicament: the viewer is still left guessing as to how  she  ended up married to an American professor  or what their love was like at its peak.
The marriage crisis exacerbates another one  this time in  Fiona ’s working life.  She  specialises in extraordinarily hard cases involving children  often with a religious element.  Her  newest case is an urgent one: Adam  a 17-year-old Jehovah’s Witness with leukaemia  is refusing a blood transfusion that could save his life.  Fiona  must decide his corporeal and perhaps spiritual fate.  She  has been able to dispassionately dispatch such cases in the past  but since  her  husband’s disruption of their marriage   her  confidence is faltering.
 Her  interest in the boy then  so steadfast in his own faith  is both professional and personal.  Fiona  takes the unusual step of visiting him in the hospital  and under Richard Eyre’s thoughtful direction  the camera offers extreme close-ups of both characters  allowing the audience to search their eyes for meaning.  Fiona  is looking for cracks in Adam’s guarded wall of faith. The viewer is looking for the real motive behind  hers .
Unfortunately  it never quite appears.  Her  judicial ruling comes suddenly  ending its fascinating inquiry into the nature of faith and connection before it has even begun. Adam lives but becomes disillusioned with his faith and begins stalking Fiona  trading one obsession for another. Mr Eyre seems to be looking for some of the same notes that worked so well for him in “Notes of a Scandal” (2006)  but this is not a lurid tale  and efforts to make it one—with wistful glances and tense  longing strings on the soundtrack—seem out of place. For this conflict to have dramatic heft  the viewer needs to understand  Fiona  better.
Perhaps a screenwriter with more distance from the original material would have been willing to radically reshape the novel  offering more backstory or drawing  her  decision out for dramatic impact to make the story less reliant on  her  inner life. “On Chesil Beach” did not call for such revisions  but “The Children Act” does. It shows that every adaptation is a unique case  even two self-adapted novels from the same hand. Some cannot simply be transposed onto the screen. Most of all  however  it shows that the writer who knows the material best is not always the one best placed to make the hard choices that can turn a great novel into a great film.
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Fiona Maye


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Businessman Chris Kennedy  jumped in with  his  take: âThatâs why we have a divided government â  he  said. âFor gosh sakes  if weâre not going to call out other parts of government â if you donât see your role as governor to call out a mayor whoâs not representing the people of a certain city  if youâre not willing to call out an assessor whoâs violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act â if you donât think thatâs the proper role of government  you should go read the Constitution ...
Well  yes  Iâm all for calling politicians to account â pointing out their failings and demanding they do better. And while I understand that constructive criticism and attempts at engagement and compromise arenât politically fashionable  I donât think  Kennedy  set the table for long-term success  should  he  be elected  with  his  over-the-top accusation earlier this month that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is leading a âstrategic gentrification planâ to drive African-Americans and other minorities out of the city.
Iâd say the same thing about  Kennedy âs repeated claims  one example seen above  that successful property-tax appeals result in less money for our schools.
Thatâs not how property taxes work. Schools set an overall levy  and that amount is divvied up among all the property taxpayers in the district. When your tax bill goes down after an appeal  everyone elseâs goes up fractionally to compensate. Candidate Daniel Biss  a state senator from Evanston  explained this clearly to  Kennedy  during a similar session Wednesday before the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board.
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Chris Kennedy


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LAURA SULLIVAN  BYLINE: There are two ways to describe  the man called Khraish Khraish in West Dallas .  He 's either a landlord saving the poor from homelessness  or  he 's one of the city's worst slumlords.
SULLIVAN: Khraish works out of a small West Dallas office where  he  manages about 300 homes  he  and  his  dad own in the neighborhood. They're mostly crumbling 1940s one-story wooden houses  but at 400 or 500 a month  they're some of the cheapest in the city.
SULLIVAN: Neighbors stop by. So does her daughter. Pearline Brown Harper wastes no time when I ask her about  Khraish .
SULLIVAN: Harper is right about at least one thing. The homes have brought in a lot of money. With 300 homes at 400 or 500 a month   Khraish  could be collecting as much as $150 000 a month in rent. But  Khraish  isn't the only one to see the investment potential here. Across the country  mom-and-pop landlords are on the decline  and studies show owners with dozens or hundreds of properties are on the rise. The less a landlord has to spend on repairs  the more money he or she stands to make. In Brown's house  a neighbor pops in to see what's going on.
SULLIVAN: And she's right not just in West Dallas but in cities all across the country. Median rent has increased 70 percent over the past two decades while housing conditions haven't improved. And according to government data  the majority of poor families are spending more than half of their already small incomes just to cover rent. In Dallas two years ago  the city decided it was going to get serious about living conditions in West Dallas. Assistant City Attorney Melissa Miles and others went into dozens of  Khraish 's homes.
SULLIVAN: They sent  Khraish  a binder with hundreds of citations.  He  said it was devastating.
 KHRAISH : It was just bankruptcy. And they want me to bring them to a standard that these houses cannot attain. It's like  how do you make a 1930s engine meet modern-day emission standards? You cannot.
SULLIVAN: But the bigger question looming over all of this is not why the city intervened but why they intervened now. And  Khraish  had a theory.
 KHRAISH : The city of Dallas does not want low-income households in the city.
SULLIVAN:  Khraish 's theory goes like this. The city wants him to renovate his homes because if he renovates  he'll have to charge more to recoup the costs. His tenants can't pay more  so they'll go live somewhere else  somewhere other than revitalized West Dallas or maybe all of Dallas.
 KHRAISH : Their affordable housing policy is not to have one.
SULLIVAN: But the answer  Khraish  came up with was not what anyone was expecting. Last spring   he  decided  he  wasn't going to renovate  his  homes. Instead   he  said  he  was going to tear them down and evict the tenants.
SULLIVAN: As he said this  we stopped in front of a lot where  Khraish  had already demolished the house that was on it. I told him city officials said they were stunned he was tearing houses down.
SULLIVAN: Except in those ashes  he says  only wealthy people get to live  and you don't even need to do code enforcement. And that could have been the end of the story  except  Khraish  had one more coda to add. A few months ago  he announced he was sparing half his tenants from eviction. Instead  he says  he's making them homeowners.
SULLIVAN: He's going to loan the tenants the money to buy the houses from him. Seller-financed deals are often controversial and can sometimes leave buyers with less-than-favorable terms. For example   Khraish's  contract says if buyers miss one payment  he can demand that they pay off the entire house immediately or lose it. Whether or not that happens   Khraish  will collect payments but will no longer have to worry about repairs.
Pearlie Mae Brown signed a similar contract with  Khraish . She can't afford to fix the house  but she told us she has no choice. She has nowhere to go. When we asked Mayor Mike Rawlings about this  he said it was a happy ending. More than a hundred people will get to stay in West Dallas.
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Khraish Khraish