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...Road, Joel I loved Joel Stein's essay "My Prius Problem" [Feb. 22]. What a brave man you are, Joel. You certainly like to live dangerously. From experience, criticizing women in general, and wives in particular - especially in print - about their driving is like having a permanent death wish. Michael Mayers, BARNET, ENGLAND...
...movie Alice is also stricken by her beloved father's death - as Dodgson said he had been. So the movie is in a way an autobiography of each man-child responsible for it: Carroll and Burton. That may not matter to the kids who find this film much livelier than earlier versions and easier to warm to than the original. And is Burton's vision trippy enough to serve as a hallucinogenic blast? Go ask Alice...
...Death and Life of the Great American School System...
...academia, which is only slightly less afflicted by the cult of the certain. Diane Ravitch, a prominent education historian and former Assistant Secretary of Education, stands at the intersection of the two spheres. Once a proponent of charter schools, standardized testing and merit pay, Ravitch now uses Death and Life to proclaim her ardent opposition to the seemingly unstoppable engine of the education-reform movement, which she believes is too quick to demonize teachers and unions in its attempts to improve the quality of the nation's schools and close the achievement gap. With scathing looks at the influence...
...begin to see here why his bosses wonder how quick-draw, hair-trigger Givens manages to have so many "justified" shootings and whether he isn't acting out some sort of vendetta psychodrama - or a death wish. Nor are they the first to wonder about him. As his ex-wife says after he politely pops by for what's meant to be a friendly chat (by way of breaking into her house in the middle of the night), "You're the angriest man I have ever known." His sartorial quirks mark him not just as a throwback...