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Starting a year ago, the people of Shelbyville began to admit the scope of their problem by asking themselves the same simple questions about who was graduating. It helped that superintendent Adams was new to his job and that the high school's principal was too. They had a clean slate and little incentive to make excuses for the old way of doing things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropout Nation | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

Indeed–though it took some getting used to. The MFA’s theatre is basically a clean, white lecture hall with a stage at the bottom. The sound system is very good, but won’t exactly vibrate your sternum. In a way, the concert was like a high-end high school assembly...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hotspot: Boston MFA | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

Three years is a long time to write and record an album. Other bands have done much more in much less time; what went wrong with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? One possibility is the direction of producer Squeak E Clean, under whom the Yeahs abandoned the roomy, live sound of their debut record. This release finds them with a more heavily-produced, contained sound, much to the new record’s detriment...

Author: By Adam J. Scheuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

Immigrant workers pluck our grapes, stock our shelves, grill our burgers and clean our offices--for pay that lets us keep our own wallets plumper. Moreover, their domestic labor gives their employers more time to put into higher-paying work and leisure time. A vibrant laborer population could even create white-collar jobs, says Daniel Griswold, an immigration expert for the Cato Institute--say, for hotel managers hired to oversee expanding staffs. "Immigrant workers," he says, "make the economy more flexible, more dynamic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What It Means for Your Wallet | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...change. Digital imaging technology will surpass film quality, and that's when moviemakers will start shooting most of their films digitally. Josh Silfen New York City I understand Lucas' enthusiasm for technological advances, but I think the look of film has more aesthetic value than digital's supercrisp, ultra-clean images. I agree with writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, whom you quoted as saying, "You almost have to degrade the [digital] image to make it more real." I hope Hollywood doesn't have to choose between digital or film but can combine them to enhance the image on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Soon to a World Near You | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

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