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...this one is. It's not just the revelation about sexual abuse that son Christian lays on the guests at his father's 60th-birthday party but also the eerie nonreaction to it--the way the placid surface of programmed jollity barely ripples. That, along with the stark, almost abstract staging by director Rufus Norris, gives this London import (an adaptation of the Danish film The Celebration) the hollow, haunted feel of Samuel Beckett, not Arthur Miller. With a strong American cast (Julianna Margulies and Michael Hayden, above), it's the take-no-prisoners drama of the Broadway season...
...middle class suburb, how a poorly regulated system of eviction storage had forced them to pay thousands of dollars in arbitrary price increases, and ultimately allowed most of their belongings to be destroyed without compensation. More importantly, they told me how a public policy issue that before had seemed abstract and theoretical had actually had a very real impact on their lives...
...seems. They're ineligible to sit for exams such as the N.S.W. Higher School Certificate or New Zealand's 7th Form Bursary, which would indicate how they stack up academically against their traditionally schooled peers. However, numerous studies, mainly American, have given homeschooled children a glowing report card: better abstract thinking and language skills, above average in all the main subjects. While much of this research was commissioned by homeschooling organizations, few experts argue against the practice on academic grounds. "Homeschooling can often produce very smart kids," says psychologist Bob Murray - largely because learning becomes a way to please their...
...charges, one editor wrote in an e-mail: “I think this example raises a fundamental point of how we should see ourselves within the Harvard Community. We are not the New York Times. We are a school newspaper…I worry desperately if we prize abstract ideals over the realities of our community...
...public policy, race, gender, class, sexual orientation, or something else entirely—tend to favor opportunities that allow them to work directly on those particular issues. On the other hand, people who feel less directly impacted by such specific issues are likely to respond to more abstract notions of the value of political participation and to take greater interest in studying and analyzing the political process...