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Roiphe's take on feminism and date rape has its dangers, however. It's very easy to mistake Roiphe's attempt to distinguish date rape from "bad sexual experiences" as a refusal to show compassion for victimized women. Also, the line between bad experiences and date rape may not be as clear as Roiphe would like to believe. Roiphe herself never sets forth the criteria for distinguishing between...
...there a deft little lesson here in how to distinguish raw genius from cautiously tutored craft? You bet there is. But Allen and McGrath also recognize how rude, disturbing and inconvenient greatness can be. And they grant gracious absolution to pretentious mediocrity, once it learns its place. Allen bathes his fable in a seductive, rosy light, grants everyone in the wonderful ensemble cast a comic high point, and gives us a film that combines impeccable craftsmanship and a basic exuberance that's been missing from his work for years...
...durable, like China, all that the North Korean leadership needs is an ability to distinguish between the permanent and the transitional," he said...
Percy's case highlights a key dilemma: how to distinguish kids who may be beyond change from the ones who aren't. In an article in this month's Commentary, James Q. Wilson observes that numerous studies of young criminals tend toward a shared conclusion: in any given age group, only 6% of the boys will be responsible for at least half of the serious crimes committed by all boys of that age. What do those kids have in common? Criminal parents, many of them -- more than half of all kids in long-term juvenile institutions in the U.S. have...
...been found that may be central to dyslexia, the mysterious disorder that makes reading difficult for those who are afflicted. Surprisingly, the problem lies in an area of the brain that is responsible for processing quickly changing sounds. This suggests that dyslexia may begin as an inability to distinguish speech sounds and only later be translated into a problem in identifying printed letters...