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...Stevens, confronting the challenging content of his adaptation of “Death and the Maiden” is the whole point. “The audience can’t sit and be passive. As a viewer,” he says, “you are forced to pay attention...
...also expressed frustration with the problem sets, which he said were “challenging, not due to challenging material, but because of ambiguously worded questions and unfamiliar content...
...sites that once contained controversial material remain filtered, even though their content has changed or the domain is now empty...
...Gomes isn’t content to offer an apolitical reflection on this question; he has an agenda. After quoting a verse from Jeremiah in which the Lord delights in “love, justice, and righteousness,” Gomes goes on to assume without argument that a war in Iraq would run contrary to these values—as though he has found, along with the case of Nazi Germany, an obvious tension between commitment to God and commitment to country. That conclusion does not follow in any straightforward way from the Scripture Gomes cites, and to lump...
...Staff seems content to compromise the welfare of Cambridge students for the sake of cutting costs. The students in question benefit tremendously from their small class size, which should be maintained regardless of the short-term budgetary implications. The $1 million price tag is negligible in the context of tens of millions of dollars in the Cambridge Public Schools budget, and a temporary deficit for a year would be far better than the confusion, aggravation and demoralization that would occur from consolidating and downsizing programs that have been created to benefit Cambridge students’ various learning styles...