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...Eventually, Elliot and Alma form a kind of family with the math teacher's daughter, but that hasn't nearly the dramatic heft needed to fill in the cracks around the disintegrating main story. What you get is a lot of impotent anger, people walking into harm's way and the sniper-like picking off of supporting players - all the dumbest tropes of horror movies, without the robust scares a good thrill-fest delivers. It's a sorry enough spectacle to make admirers of The Sixth Sense wonder if they didn't overrate that movie, and the director's whole...
...didn't have to play. Is there any major director who has made six consecutive films, each one markedly inferior to the one before? A case can be made that the answer is M. Night Shyamalan. (I'm ignoring Shyamalan's first two features, the cross-cultural Praying With Anger and the juvenile drama Wide Awake, because they were clearly apprentice work and, frankly, they don't fit into my argument...
...June 4, gasoline is up by 11%, diesel by 10% and LPG by 17%. The price of kerosene, the most widely used cooking fuel, was left unchanged, but the other increases will push up India's inflation rate, which at 8.24% is already at a four-year high. Public anger is growing. India's leftist parties called for a week of protests after Singh's TV announcement. The states of West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala saw general strikes that emptied the streets. Slogan-shouting housewives marched through New Delhi, while in Mumbai protestors rode bullock carts to show that cars...
...combination of inflexibility and public humiliation for those not meeting federal goals ignited so much frustration among educators that NCLB now appears to be an irreparably damaged brand. "The problems lingered long enough and there's so much anger that it may not be fixable," says Neuman. While the American Federation of Teachers was once on board with the NCLB goals, she notes, the union has turned against it. "Teachers hate NCLB because they feel like they've been picked...
...they grew up with and the kind of dad they'd like to be. Some responses are blunt: "My dad was an a__hole, and I'd rather not be one." But nearly all include a desire to attain the virtues of a decidedly modern man: patience, emotional availability, anger-management and communication skills, and open-mindedness...