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...protecting students from failure we are not helping them--we are merely guaranteeing that they will be unable to cope with it when they encounter it later on. Failure, we seem to have forgotten, is a part of life. Getting a D or an E should not be a disgrace; it should be an experience a student learns to bounce back from...
...play itself follows the tumultuous love-life of a hip New York choreographer, Anna. Her gay flatmate has died, leaving her to cope with grief and his rowdy, loudmouth older brother, Pale, Grief proves the easier to deal with. She loses her preppy boyfriend, he sense of identity, her other roommate's respect and her psychological well-being--all for a drunken, ignorant New Jersey (horror!) restauranteur. Love sure is funny...
...Students Cope With the Snow
...frustration with an indifferent, self-satisfied, aging society is redolent of late-life crisis on the part of seventy-three-year-old James Faron's attempts to cope with his grief over his accidental killing of his baby daughter subtly evoke a personal crisis, perhaps reminiscent of the death of James' mentally ill husband forty years ago. She also addresses the corrupting attraction of power, even in a world without future generations to remember and admire the achievements of the powerful...
...some countries will draw industry away from such socially liberal nations as France and Germany. Many also fear that broadening the E.C. by admitting East European nations will weaken it economically. But, says European Commission president Jacques Delors, "building Europe has not been a long, calm process." Forced to cope with the realities of a single market, the Reteguis, the Greens, the Sivieris and the Kastners would not disagree with Delors's sentiment...