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...hood. The emotional climax of the film comes when, angered by the behavior of two of his female students, who sit on a sort of school governing board, he tells them they're acting like "skanks." They deliberately misread his remark - no he didn't actually call them a bad name, which they take to be a synonym for "whores" - but it doesn't matter. There's a classroom confrontation with an African student who rises to their defense, blood is accidentally spilled and the boy is threatened with expulsion - which in his case means expulsion not just from school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Class: A Year in the Blackboard Jungle | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...Democracy Center on Mt. Auburn Street, shared similar ideas. “We love Ben and that’s all that matters,” said current UC Representative Alyssa M. Aguilera ’09, an inactive Crimson editor. At 9:47pm Schwartz got a phone call. He and Biggers left the room together soon after, returning to tell the crowd that they had lost. “We did not win the election,” Schwartz said. “It didn’t work out for us.” The failed presidential candidate...

Author: By Carola A Cintron-arroyo and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Candidates Ponder U.C. Election Loss | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...state so plagued by cronyism and shady self-dealing that the head of the FBI here didn't hesitate to call Illinois one of the - if not the - most corrupt states in the nation, Lieut. Governor Pat Quinn is considered something of a Goody Two-Shoes. Responsible for slashing the size of the state legislature, he has been booed by legislators on the capitol floor. He keeps a minimal staff and is said to charge $75 a ticket for fundraisers - at a time when entry to most is well into the hundreds if not thousands of dollars. The former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pat Quinn: The Man Who Would Replace Blagojevich | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...scary - type of vacation. While she's in Mexico, she says, "he goes skiing in Chile, heli-skiing in Telluride - any kind of extreme ski or mountain bike trip." Which is not to say the two don't stay in touch when they're far away. "We call or email a lot to share what we have been doing - maybe to the annoyance of the other people we are traveling with," Rogoff Moraga says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Healthy for Couples to Travel Apart? | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...issues. For example, the recently unclassified National Intelligence Council report stating that "the problem of feeding a burgeoning population is not agriculture or science, but rather political stability, transportation and distribution.” Not long ago, this view of the world would have been ridiculed; today, we may call it correct...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Hostility to Health | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

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