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Produced a mere three years after the release of the 2007 British independent film of the same name, the movie is a case study of the absurd??it settles into a vein of ridiculous circumstances early on, and this proves to be the defining attribute of the film, from the opening scene to the end credits...
...miles per hour in the suburbs. The original NCLB legislation had the lofty goal of bringing every student to proficiency in reading and math by 2014. While the ambition of lawmakers was admirable, the goal of reaching universal proficiency in less than a generation is patently absurd??especially when many states began with less than 15 percent proficiency rates. Rather than penalize schools now for the legislation’s lack of foresight, Congress should have revised expectations downward when the act came up for renewal in 2007. The reason that this year has seen so many schools...
...bursty nature” of the lines. Fasci has worked for AlliedBarton since last May but was trained for the Lamont overnight position only about two and a half weeks ago. AlliedBarton declined to comment. Students in line said they thought the resulting long wait was “absurd?? and “ridiculous.” “When they have to check my musical instrument for books, it gets annoying,” said Natalie D. Bau ’09. “They already have an electronic sensor to detect books that...
...editorial’s main argument. As the host country, Italy presented a panorama of its heritage, which does, in fact, include the Renaissance, the Alps, and yes, cows. It is unfortunate that this creative display of tradition is dismissed as a “theater of the absurd??, rather than taken as the celebratory tribute that it was. Indeed, even the Opening Ceremonies have already been a theater for overtures in international diplomacy: this was the first Winter Olympics where the two Koreas marched under one flag. This two-week display of human endeavor and international accord...
...Allison wrote.Nonetheless, Bershady’s accusation prompted Sara McLanahan, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, to defend Edin in a letter to the editor in the Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s student newspaper. McLanahan described the conceptual plagiarism charge as “absurd?? and suggestive of a “fundamental misreading” of Anderson and Edin’s works. The letter, which was published on Oct. 6, was co-signed by 12 other academics, including Harvard’s Wiener Professor of Social Policy Christopher Jencks and Professor...