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...better or worse, The West Wing has always been a didactic series, but it took finally the urgency of the recent news events for Aaron Sorkin to write an episode that was literally didactic - that is, teacherly - by setting it in what was for all intents and purposes a classroom. The set-up: in response to a reported security breach, the White House "crashes" - no one is allowed to enter or leave - just as aide Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) is speaking to a class of honor students...
...classroom setup the product of an understandable rush job? Maybe. Was it Sorkin subordinating the needs of drama to get out a message? Sure, but post-disaster charitable feelings aside, it's not as though he's never done that before. In the end, you have to wonder whether it ever occurred to Sorkin that it might be the slightest bit insulting to essentially represent the home audience, within the story, as schoolchildren, who need to be gratefully taught his lessons...
Last Monday evening, Sven Beckert, an Associate Professor of History at the college, began the first class he was teaching at the extension school with an undeniably casual air. He stood in front of a very crowded Sever classroom and scanned his 7:30 p.m. class with a faint smile, seemingly oblivious to the fact that his dark blue oxford shirt was slightly unbuttoned at the bottom, revealing just a sliver of his white undershirt...
Jackson, who said he has been busy in the past few weeks ministering to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and urging caution in foreign policy, addressed a packed Austin Hall classroom for more than an hour as part of a series of speakers in HLS’s “Saturday School” program run by Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree...
...need a hero, patience may be its name. The good news is that a lot of risk has already been wrung out of the stock market. So this is no time to run scared, even though the cranky teacher is back in the classroom and it seems a long time till next summer...