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...Sopranos, the HBO phenomenon created by David Chase. I lived day and night with the Bonnano crime family of New York City, interacting with wiseguys and their families, attending Mob weddings, funerals and family get-togethers. Chase understands their subtleties, from the emphatic hand gestures to their unwritten code of honor...
...selling points of the school at which I taught for three years (and attended from seventh through twelfth grade) is that its students don't just learn academic skills, they learn character. The goal of its 75 year-old Honor Code, which allows students to take exams unproctored or even at home, is to teach students to do what is right even when it is most difficult...
...there has to be some value in trying to teach character, even if it doesn't show up on surveys of future behavior. But in the end what matters most is not how well-planned the program, or carefully defined the Congressional vocabulary, or how venerable the Honor Code, but rather the quality of a school's role models. Children learn what is modeled for them day after day, year after year, by their teachers, their parents and their friends. It probably won't hurt to bribe schools to add character to the things they try to teach...
...Comics had a code name for their "Bizarro Comics" project, it should have been "Faust." This deluxe, hardcover book brings together many of alterna-comix best talents to write and draw stories using the many superheroes, like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, owned by mainstream behemoth DC (owned by AOL Time Warner, the same parent company as this website.) Would there be a price to pay for playing with the big, bad money? Sure enough, a whiff of sulfur may fill your nostrils as you plunk down your...
...countries are even more disturbed by the sheer cavalier attitude with which we brushed aside the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. This is particularly startling coming in the beginning of an administration that promised a more humble, less arrogant American attitude abroad. It is now clear that was simply code for less intervention, not a real commitment to treat other countries as partners...