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...Vidal, a graduate of TV's Golden Age of live drama, who wrote The Left-Handed Gun, a Billy the Kid film that one critic called "Freud on the Range." There were plenty of mature, psychologically complex Westerns. In the original 3:10 to Yuma, the career killer and decent farmer hole up in a hotel room and have an extended existentialist conversation - like Sartre or Beckett, but at gunpoint. In Anthony Mann's Westerns with Stewart and Gary Cooper, a good man with a bad past would face his own demons. The final shootout was both a surge...
...addressed within the next few weeks. Perhaps the worst feature of the Core is its limited course offerings. This semester, for example, only three courses count for Historical Studies B, and only five are offered in the spring. And for students choosy enough to want a halfway decent Core class, the pickings are even slimmer: of the five “Science A” courses offered this semester, the highest CUE rating is a 3.7; there are no courses in the spring that do any better. There are some obvious reasons why students face such a paucity of options...
...period ended Monday. “The community benefits described in the DPIR are inadequate and vague,” wrote Allston resident Jeffrey Bryan. “[I]t is not understandable why they couldn’t have made at least a half hearted attempt at a decent benefits package commensurate with the years of negative impacts they are subjugating the neighborhood.” Bryan’s comment also reflected increasing community dissatisfaction with the task force’s negotiations with the University. BRA Senior Project Manager Gerald Autler said that the comments submitted...
...propose we rehabilitate the name. Fifty years from now, Edsel--derived from the Old German Adal, meaning "noble"--should bring to mind not the failed car but the decent man whose legacy fell under the huge chrome wheels of consumer culture on its first reckless laps...
...optimistic. If the experiment succeeds, even in part, it has the chance to transform urban education nationwide. That's why I'm excited that so many smart and spirited activists--innovative and imaginative and dedicated to the cause of ensuring that every kid in America gets a decent shot--are surging to New Orleans to be part of a mission of a lifetime that they, and their nation, will study for decades to come...