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...also knows that he can abandon his old life in order to inhabit his own reality. Beard believes that after learning “the tricks of managing, of simply being” he will reach “the calm plateau” where he will finally be content. But as he progresses through life, Beard is frustrated with the “pseudo-work” he uses “to mask his irrelevance” and is “well aware of the singularity by which the tiny vehicle of his talent, a child?...
...additions to the plot prove unnecessary, such as the musical number entitled “The Morning Report,” which is a sunny but vapid tune led by Zazu that appears to have been added solely for the enjoyment of the under-6 crowd, as it proves content-less and only weakly amusing. And at a total run time of two hours and 45 minutes, plenty of opportunities for cutting superfluous scenes exist...
Reality is more than a TV genre now. It's the burgeoning career field that led Richard Heene to perpetrate the Balloon Boy hoax, and Tareq and Michaele Salahi to crash a White House dinner, Bravo TV cameras in tow. It's the content mill for the cable-tabloid-blog machine, employing human punch lines like Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced governor turned contestant on Celebrity Apprentice. It's everywhere. When Scott Brown won an upset Senate victory in Massachusetts, he was joined onstage by his daughter Ayla, an American Idol semifinalist from Season...
...change of the seismic variety, though admittedly far removed from the new President's vision. Indeed, it suggested that a tipping point had been reached, foreshadowing the fierce resistance to health care reform in a nation where most people were already insured, and most of those seemed content with the status quo. Far from riding history's crest, Obama found himself shouting into the wind. A year into his presidency, two things stand out: the easy history has been made, and it's simpler to change our leaders than ourselves...
...General Education requirement, for instance, allows students to graduate without ever taking a formal class on religion. But we noticed that classes on religion abound at the College and fulfill three other General Education requirements. One of these requirements, "Culture and Belief," covers content remarkably similar to what would be included in the proposed "Faith and Reason" requirement...