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...such, the film's thematic debt to fascism or even imperialism is not inconsiderable. We are better than Them, albeit for fully arbitrary reasons. Killing Them will be a big guiltless joyride for Us, who are Their clear superiors. You can see Rudyard Kipling on a nasty day really digging this movie...
...networks' refusal will no doubt stir conspiracy theories about the connection between advertising and content on national television. But then, most of us knew that already. At least CNN was prepared to give the commercial airtime, albeit to its relatively miniscule cable audience. More suspicious, perhaps, is the mysterious non-appearance of a full page Buy Nothing Day ad the Media Foundation said they would run in the New York Times. TIME Daily could not reach either the Times advertising department or the Media Foundation for comment Friday: Chances are, they were all out shopping...
Counting Crows left the stage having given an extremely powerful, albeit short 90 minute concert. It was unclear, though, if the band and its fans always operate on the same wavelength. Duritz closed "Round Here" with the song's character Maria asking, "Can't you see me?" He then added his heart-wrenching response, "And I say...no." One fan obnoxiously shattered the moving silence yelling out, "I can't either!" Obviously he hadn't quite gotten the point. But then again, in his defense, maybe he missed the rollercoaster and was just looking for the party that Counting Crows...
That commonsense approach has guided the Bronx-born Klein through a distinguished, albeit low-keyed, career. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard law school, Klein clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell Jr. and went on to argue regularly before the high court as a private attorney. He says his biggest victory was a 1992 ruling that lets students who have been victims of sexual harassment collect damages from schools that get federal funding...
...shift to phonics went to extremes and if the genuine contributions of whole language were abandoned, so this embrace of moderation is welcome. However, balance can mean many things. Even whole-language teachers now maintain that their approach is balanced, because, after all, they do address phonics, albeit in an ad hoc fashion. There are elements of phonics instruction, though, that cannot be diluted; it must be systematic and explicit, if the full benefit is to be derived from it. To deprive children of that benefit is destructive. As one of Carol Avery's fourth-graders said to her, "Writing...