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Like Arbus, Mark also enjoys the ways in which people construct fantasies of themselves, like the old girl in a ballroom gown who has been happily swept off her feet by a dance partner in Jerry Hill and Margaret Sell. In another shot, Vera Antinoro, Rhoda Camporato and Murray Goldman, two aging glamour girls strut their stuff, what there is of it. They may seem at first to be clueless about themselves, until you realize that they are onto something about all of us, something that has to do with the need to persevere in roles that give us pleasure...
...from a money-losing industrial conglomerate better known for toilet paper and tires into a $20 billion global telecom powerhouse, what sticks with you is his charming knack for understatement. "We've done pretty well," Ollila says, kicking back in his chair inside Nokia's Espoo headquarters, a modern construct of glass and steel towering over the Gulf of Finland six miles west of Helsinki. You'd think he was talking about his tennis game...
...Moral Reasoning 22, Johnson says, tries to teach students to construct well-reasoned arguments about moral issues--skills which a chemistry concentrator might master as easily as a women's studies major...
Elizabeth M. Darst '00, said Dean of College Harry R. Lewis '68 and Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 helped the group construct the proposal...
Both sides cite statistical studies and anecdotal evidence to support their case. Unfortunately, statistical studies in education are notoriously unreliable--blind studies, for example, are difficult to construct. And for every charismatic teacher who succeeds with a "progressive" approach in the classroom, there are other teachers who manage to raise test scores dramatically by "going back to basics...