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...DISTINGUISH A PERSON WHO IS AT RISK FOR SUICIDE FROM ONE WHO IS SUFFERING FROM MORE ROUTINE DEPRESSION...
...desperate not to be upstaged on the boards. That Paltrow is giving such a subtly shaded, moving performance at the Donmar as a brilliant girl terrified she has inherited her father's madness will not ease Madonna's woes. But, like art dealers, audiences should be able to distinguish between an original and a copy. Paltrow can act, Madonna is the fake...
...Jonathan H. Esensten ’04 and Anthony S.A. Freinberg ’04 (“A Dishonorable Solution,” May 13). I feel obliged to point out that admission itself to Harvard, not the awarding of honors, is “meant to distinguish between those students who are merely good and those who consistently have done work of the highest quality,” as the authors claim...
...January and ordered that a vote on unionization be conducted among the RAs. The commission pointed to several facts: RAs sign an employment contract, work about 20 hours a week and receive weekly paychecks. Also, their compensation is calculated to meet the minimum wage, and taxes are deducted. To distinguish RAs from the graduate students at UMass-Lowell who had not been deemed employees, the commission pointed to the fact that RAs undergo rigid training and supervision, including exit interviews if they are terminated. It concluded that the university’s interest in RAs is primarily in the services...
...very high-contrast black and white - a fascinating choice given the subject. When not cast in nearly complete shadow, characters look as though brightly lit from one direction, horror-movie style. Features get flattened, and more importantly, skin tone vanishes. For better or worse this makes it difficult to distinguish between characters, black or white. Arguably this lack of shading also counters the book's themes of moral shading. But then, just discussing the graphics for their rhetorical meaning puts this book in special league...