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...unconventional nunnery in 1960s Ireland, The Magdalene Sisters is a film about hypocrisy, dogma and the horrible deeds committed as a result of religious hysteria. This fact-based story focuses on the lives of three women who, in one sense or another, are judged by the Catholic Church as having been “sinful” and, as a result, are essentially sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor and abuse at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy in what was known as a Magdalene Laundry. The sins of these women extend from the merely unthinkable?...
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum has just released preliminary plans for three new buildings, including a state-of-the-art molecular research lab, in what would be its largest construction project since the 1960s...
...unconventioal nunnery in 1960s Ireland, The Magdalene Sisters is a film about hypocrisy, dogma and the horrible deeds committed as a result of religious hysteria. This fact-based story focuses on the lives of three women who, in one sense or another, are judged by the Catholic Church as having been “sinful” and, as a result, are essentially sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor and abuse at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy in what was known as a Magdalene Laundry. The sins of these women extend from the merely unthinkable?...
...QRF’s name is a play on the late 1960s group the Gay Liberation Front, which was a radical movement in its time...
NCLB doesn’t direct its harshest threats at mediocre, laissez faire suburban schools filled with bored teachers using 1960s textbooks and methods. Their students come with parental support. They come with early childhood knowledge of English. And despite the possible failings of their school, they handle test day on their own. Middle-class schools like this, though often stagnant, are spared the punitive reach of NCLB...