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Pink paper and red ink is all it takes to throw your life into turmoil, as Don Johnston, played by Bill Murray, learns in the nostalgic and witty drama “Broken Flowers.” A mysterious letter arrives in this confirmed bachelor’s mailbox and tells him he has a son by an anonymous woman who claims to have dated him 20 years earlier. Urged on by his neighbor Winston, a detective enthusiast played with appealing earnestness by Jeffrey Wright, Don embarks on a cross-country journey to visit his old flames and find...
...understated. Audiences are used to seeing this actor play an aging man dealing with his lost youth (see “Rushmore,” “Lost in Translation,” or “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”). “Broken Flowers” allows him to reprise this role...
...office line-up increasingly filled with explosions and flat, undeveloped characters, “Broken Flowers” presents a welcome change: it is a film about real people with real personal baggage. Set to an eclectic soundtrack, the storyline—especially the ending—is delightfully ambiguous, inviting the audience to mull over this film long after the credits roll...
...author of the Turning Points report. What counts, he says, is good instruction and caring relationships. "You can make that happen in a stand-alone middle school or a K-8 school," Jackson adds, although he believes that schools with more than 100 kids per grade should be broken up into smaller units. Hiring qualified teachers and giving them time to plan and upgrade skills is also critical. Nationally, only about 1 in 4 middle school teachers has special certification for teaching middle school grades...
...clear how NASA is going to fix the other birds in the shuttle flock. The tiles on Discovery seem relatively clean, with 80% fewer chips than shuttles usually sustain--a tribute to the strides the engineers have made. But had the big piece of foam broken off lower in the atmosphere, it would have slammed into a wall of thicker air and could have crashed far harder into the ship. NASA doesn't want to rely on luck again...