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...Herb Brooks. Russell, whose dusty film resume has been given a sudden shock, walks, talks and grunts the part of the bull-headed Brooks with confidence; if the film had been released two months earlier, he could very well be garnering award attention. The film’s only crutch is its presentation of the hockey games, splattered onto the screen with so many close-ups and jump cuts as to make the games unintelligible...
Ventura ruffled more than a few feathers when he told Playboy magazine that religion was a “sham and a crutch for weak-minded people...
...HAVEN, Conn.—Junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick looked like he could barely walk. Thankfully for him, freshman tailback Clifton Dawson served as the perfect crutch in Harvard’s 37-19 victory...
...have deep knowledge of subject matter and of how to engage youngsters, most are in despair over the limits put on them by the mindless work demanded by these high-stakes tests. Many of those who are less well prepared for teaching use this diminished curriculum as a crutch. They do not seek further help, nor does anyone in a supervisory capacity offer help of any significant kind. Again, high-stakes tests prevent the development of high standards...
...resentment but send the message to blacks that they can't meet the same standards as everyone else. Swain's detractors say such steps amount to no more than a cowardly capitulation to racism, but she won't back down because she does not believe that blacks need the crutch provided by race-conscious policies. For Swain, a deeply devout evangelical Christian, such beliefs are not academic. Now 49, she went from being a high school drop-out and single mother in rural Virginia to a Ph.d and a chair at a leading university. "Somehow, we've got to embrace...