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...parent and an educator, I was surprised at the ''plus ca change . . .'' impression given by your piece on children's toys (LIVING, Dec. 22). Are you assuming that Rambo occupies the same role as Daniel Boone or Superman in children's fantasies and contributes in the same way to their moral and social development? If the historical trend toward more explicitly violent heroes is so benign, why have we seen such a dramatic increase in real violence in our society over the past several decades...
...DANIEL LUCHINI Naperville...
Right about now we bet DANIEL CRAIG wishes he were still known simply as the coke dealer from Layer Cake or the hothead assassin from Munich. Instead, Craig, who picks up the tuxedo-modeling gig in November's James Bond movie, Casino Royale, is under siege from skeptical 007 fans. On a new website, Craignotbond.com angry fans ask why "a short, blond actor with the rough face of a professional boxer and a penchant for playing villains, killers, cranks, cads and gigolos" ever got the iconic part. Pining for a little Pierce Brosnan--style suavity, the fans say they plan...
...presidency, promising an end to corruption as "a way of life." Kenya was once one of Africa's fastest growing economies, but misrule and graft had helped lead to poverty and made the country unpopular with donors, who froze hundreds of millions of aid dollars. Outgoing President Daniel arap Moi, whose Kenya African National Union party had ruled the country for four decades, was so unpopular at the end of his term that when he rose to speak at Kibaki's inauguration the crowd pelted the dais with mud. Kibaki appointed Githongo, a former journalist who founded the local office...
...They are geared as a model that rewards ‘plug and chuck’ and memorization,” Mazur said. “You look at a problem and say what equation should be used without understanding.”And Higgins Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl, who co-teaches the spring semester course in the year-long introductory Life Sciences sequence, wrote in an e-mail, “From what my students know, and don’t know, I can only infer that most AP biology courses do not have the depth...