What I meant is that non-Jews admiring of the ceremony are now holding more coming-of-age parties that are bar-mitzvah-like, but not actual bar mitzvahs.
With thousands of charter schools now operating in 40 states, and more coming online every day, neither of these promises has been kept.
With more than 13 billion connected devices in the world and millions more coming online every week, the amount of data we are collecting is amazing.
For instance, when the rich spend more on larger mansions or more elaborate coming-of-age parties for their children, the apparent effect is merely to redefine what counts as adequate.
"There's a lot more coming," Ms. Pope of Jones Lang LaSalle said.
The consequences of teenage pregnancy, and there are consequences, are far more nuanced here than in the books I'd read, and "Small Damages" is more a coming-of-age story than a knee-jerk jeremiad against teenage sex.
It is at once a gripping, fast-paced adventure story - there are gun battles, people are eaten by crocodiles, and so on - and a more ruminative, coming-of-age narrative.
In a more sappy coming-of-age story (a novel, let's say) this effort would win first prize and its author be hailed as a literary star in the making.
"Over time, the show is going to focus more on coming-of-age across decades and we're going to include multiple stories that ride alongside my own," said Tan. "The topics will expand, the people who are interviewed will expand, and the universal themes to make Millennial resonate with people of all ages will also expand".
The series would focus more on "coming-of-age issues", in a similar style to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, and Smallville, with Jason as more of a recurring "background" character.
General Growth Properties also has debt payments of $3 billion more coming due in 2009.
