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Meanwhile, the romantic element asserts itself in the form of Jack Dale (Steve Raizes), Karin's long-lost high school sweetheart. After 15 years, Jack returns to Las Colinas with his soon-to-be third wife, Virginia (Jenni Paredes), a suitably annoying blonde Southern bimbo archetype. Jack has promised to take Virginia to the cotillion that evening and to announce their engagement at a luncheon the next day. His highpowered corporate boss, a forceful cellular presence, seems to have other plans...
Facing a sea of gray uniforms at the Citadel last week, Pat Buchanan was in his element--a venerated all-male corps of cadets under attack by a young girl and a bunch of misguided federal judges. Buchanan's rhetorical landscape is always filled with symbols of tradition and patriarchy, and his speech to the group didn't lack battlefields, American flags and brave soldiers. Then he described the current national menace: "the men in sandals and beads at the U.S. Department of Education who want to tell the Citadel how to teach history." The young men cheered and laughed...
...bulletin board," Parsons said."It's a decorative element. We hope there will bea lot of student involvement in using this as aform of artistic expression...
...possible. ``It shifts education from adults giving answers to students seeking answers,'' says headmaster Gardner Dunnan. The underlying premise: we all understand and remember what we have discovered for ourselves far better than what we have merely been told. Still, the guiding hand of the teacher is a vital element in the process. ``You can't just give kids powerful computers and powerful information and set them loose. The teacher must create a compelling set of educational questions,'' says associate headmaster Frank Moretti, who heads Dalton's technology group, the New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning. The effectiveness of Dalton...
...Payback," billed as Hollywood's first interactive movie, is further proof that the world is turning into a big video game. The most uncanny element of the digital revolution is that none of us can escape it, but almost none of us understands it at all. Since our access to the various technologies that surround us is regulated in away we cannot control, our relation to digital media is necessarily coerced...