Word: ed
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...Billy Bob...]...was in Dead Man, with Johnny Depp Johnny Depp was in Ed Wood, with Patricia Arquette Patricia Arquette was in Beyond Rangoon, with Frances McDormand...
...mirror in a room where the President is having nasty sex with his adviser's young wife--and that our larcenous hero does nothing to stop her murder. This old-style thriller sometimes creaks in its joints as it adds an amoral aide (Judy Davis), a canny cop (Ed Harris) and a Secret Service agent (Scott Glenn) as weary as the one Clint played in In the Line of Fire. But Eastwood is less interested in political corruption than in filial care; the warming, nicely played relationship of the burglar and his lawyer daughter (Laura Linney) is the source...
...replying to register my disappointment with the inaccuracy of Rachel Barenbaum's op-ed on Ebonics. I do not pretend to speak for supporters of Ebonics, I am only writing as one supporter of Ebonics. With few exceptions, Ms. Barenbaum's entire analysis is completely incorrect. First, her worry that Ebonics will remove social fluidity and drive races and classes further apart is groundless. She seems to think that proponents of Ebonics want it to be taught to African-American students in classrooms across the country. On the contrary, Ebonics, as it currently stands, is going to be taught...
...arguing that Ebonics is going to create a division between those who speak it and "those who speaks, reads," and write standard English. Earlier she argues that, because of all this debate, "what is being established is binary opposition, is difference." These grammatically incorrect sentences, in an edited op-ed piece, should remind some of us that the basic question at hand is not only learning standard English grammar, but mastering it. I write this letter because I feel people are using the debate about Ebonics as a platform to overphilosophize about "binary classism" and other completely irrelevant phrases, which...
...There were four people from the team in my Gen. Ed. 105 night section. I think the whole section was made up of athletes," said women's basketball captain Kelly Black. "Time constraints are definitely huge...