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...audience of literati. In just under three hours, spectators will hear about Orwell’s social theory, Wittgenstein’s philosophy, a handful of Auden, the unavoidable Shakespeare, and others. All of this fits in the seemingly unavoidable duel between two styles of teaching set up by Bennett...
...creative but confrontational approach to history, as well as his popular British television documentaries, illustrate Bennet’s charges against proud academics. Although his academic criticism is at times too simplistic to be taken seriously, Bennett ends up heightening Irwin’s role in developing the students’ personalities as the character deals with his own inner conflicts...
...BILL BENNETT Host of the radio show Bill Bennett's Morning in America The reporting from the mainstream media has been shameful and biased. There's a disposition to believe any bad news, whatever the source, and an indisposition to believe the good news, no matter how reliable. The media reward themselves for leaking classified information--which may be a violation of the law--give Pulitzers for that. We're in a war, and I don't think a lot of the media think we're in a war. They think that it's some kind of skirmish, largely contrived...
...Iraq's Missing Girls Brian Bennett's "Stolen Wway" [May 1] painted a vivid picture of the abduction and sexual abuse of girls in Iraq. Someone has rightly said that war has no winners, only losers. And perhaps the biggest losers in Iraq for the moment are its girls. Sexual exploitation causes not just physical trauma; there is mental anguish as well. When disowned by their families, such girls are in danger of committing suicide or living the life of a prostitute. The Iraqi government should make it a priority to curb the evil of sex trafficking and rehabilitate...
...commend Bennett for shedding light on a little-known, crucial issue. It pains me that young girls are forced to find safe haven in jails and orphanages to escape sex trafficking, and I'm horrified that this just recently became a problem, following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. The lack of law and order in Iraq is enabling the exploitation of those poor girls. Morgan Wileyv Fairway, Kansas...