Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who know me will testify that a good joke can launch me into giggle fits; a valentine can set me weeping; nearly any episode of The Simpsons can do both. So I am no emotional slug. When I enter a movie theater, I bring high spirits and modest needs. I merely say, as Clint Eastwood might, "Go ahead. Make me laugh...
...certain movies, to governments failing their impoverished citizens. While some of these provide illumination, they can distance us from the crime. The initial moment of revelation, the strange intimation that perhaps "I too have sinned and somehow share in this carnage," that responsibility is dissipated. Economics, sociology and psychology enter. The crime deflates to a manageable size, one that justice can work on and prisons can hide. The criminal is buried, the atrocity tucked away...
Should foreign citizens who are infected with the AIDS virus be permitted to enter the U.S.? No, says the Justice Department, which has imposed a ban on such immigrants and travelers. Yes, says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has been lobbying to change that policy. Change it or else, says Harvard University, which is about to withdraw as host of next year's International AIDS Conference unless the ban is lifted. The annual conference, which draws thousands of scientists, is the key forum for researchers investigating the worldwide epidemic. "It's impossible to have a meeting...
STAGE FRIGHT. The immigration law set to go into effect in October contains a minor provision causing major artistic anxiety: it limits to 25,000 a year the number of actors, musicians, models and athletes who can enter the U.S. to perform under temporary visas. Other oddities: applicants must be "internationally recognized" or "culturally unique" (whatever that means) and must have been with their group at least a year. The bill was pushed by organized labor to protect American jobs, but the tight limit (applied first come, first served) could instead assault American culture...
...moment small children step into their first classroom, they enter a new world of learning. Early childhood education has become a cauldron of fresh and innovative approaches, a place where research is applied with dramatic effect. The days of too much control, overstructured hours and too many "punish mechanisms" -- difficult children forced to take naps -- are going. The old "teacher-directed" activities are also on their way out. So are elements of rote learning: reciting the alphabet and learning the early stages of reading through memorization...