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...voiced by •desire of to have Brookings Institution "cleaned out in a way that has somebody else take the blame" is voiced by •enemies - "The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard one hundred times and never forget it" - are seen everywhere...
...native Jenny Chong, 32, who, along with friends (and former McCann Erickson advertising-agency colleagues) Jessy Yap and Samantha Wong, both 26, runs Mooie, the funkiest fashion destination in the Malaysian capital. On display is a wide range of Asian fashion labels, along with bandbox-striped changing rooms and blackboard walls on which the trio chalk up monthly messages informed by their design backgrounds. "We like to be creative in everything we do," Chong says...
...sure, some cases have been clearly inappropriate - such as the Florida middle school instructor who was suspended Oct. 2 after writing a racial slur about Obama on his blackboard. Other situations, however, are more ambiguous. Consider the class of first graders at a San Francisco charter school, which recently had a school-sponsored outing to attend the wedding of their lesbian teacher. Three weeks from now, California voters will vote on Proposition 8, an anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and proponents of that measure decry the field trip as overtly political. "This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young...
...book The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes: "I loved the law school classroom: the stripped-down nature of it, the high-wire act of standing in front of a room at the beginning of each class with just blackboard and chalk, the students taking measure of me, some intent or apprehensive, others demonstrative in their boredom, the tension broken by my first question - What's this case about? - and the hands tentatively rising, the initial responses and me pushing back against whatever arguments surfaced." Professor Obama is facing a classroom the size of America now. The question is whether...
Hollywood would take Begaudeau's book and turn it into Blackboard Jungle or Superbad. There are dramas within the class, but Cantet dispenses with melodrama to get to the truths inside these kids and the teacher who gives totally of himself to get through to them. (The kids were discovered in a school in Paris' 20th arrondisement, put through a long workshop period to play characters who were part fictional, part themselves.) As the film unfolds, a half-dozen or more of the children reveal distinct, tough and touching personalities...