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...teachers' union despite his embrace of reforms the union is leery of, including school choice, pay for performance and a willingness to close down failing schools. "Duncan mirrors the President-elect's style of governing - get all sides around the table, listen carefully and experiment with meaningful reforms," says Bruce Fuller, a professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley. "While tough-headed, he's rarely antagonistic, nor a kick-butt, take-names kind of reformer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Arne Duncan Shake Up America's Schools? | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...what should have been his prime by curling inside the legend of the Difficult Star, acquiring an odor for being rowdy and unreliable. And since he wasn't a box-office magnet, why take the chance? Bio stats on the Internet Movie Database synopsize Rourke's '90s: "Turned down Bruce Willis' role in Pulp Fiction ... Filmed a role in [Terrence Malick's] The Thin Red Line that eventually got cut ... Walked off the set of Luck of the Draw when the producers refused to let him include his pet chihuahua in the movie." Instead, Rourke, who had been a serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback Fight | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...closing at a meeting in October, calling the move “disgusting.” But she praised the gerontologist who will care for her at another CHA clinic, the Riverside Health Center, and said she did not think that the change would cause her too much inconvenience. Bruce Sylvester, a former staffer at Harvard Law School, said that the health center closing leaves him “very up in the air,” because he wants to remain with a doctor who based part of his practice at the Oliver Farnum health center. Sylvester said that...

Author: By Bora Fezga and Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Clinic To Close On Christmas Eve | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...experience. “Spatially, you can torque the film in a muscular way—contract, expand, release—in a way that’s in tune with the psyche.” Dorsky says, referring to silent films. Unlike his influences Dziga Vertov and Bruce Conner, whose work veered into social and political commentary, Dorsky seems more concerned with the level to which the individual viewer participates in the film’s meaning. Dorsky says, “Hopefully, if it’s successful, subject matter, screen, and the audience aren?...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LINEAR PERSPECTIVE: Nathaniel Dorsky | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...near the Guatemala-Mexico border. Last March, 11 men died in a shootout at a rural recreation spot. And those are just the events that made headlines; experts say there have been, and will be, more. "Frankly, I think it's going to get a loss worse," says Bruce Bagley, chair of the International Studies department at the University of Miami. (See the Top 10 Underreported Stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Exports Its Drug Wars to Guatemala | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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