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Meanwhile, the last year has also witnessed Lazarus-like returns by several formerly struggling A-listers like Demi Moore and Uma Thurman (not to mention the current governor of California), none of whom was able to deliver box office results equal to their reputation in Hollywood...
...much as national leaders have a duty to bring college students into the political fray, college students have an equal duty to actively engage elected officials. In other words, young voters should continue making their voices heard, and above all they must utilize that power that all Americans are granted: the right to vote. Students cannot afford to wait for candidates to come to them. They must use their numbers—and their activism—to force candidates to address the issues that they want addressed, in the way that they want them addressed. The country will...
...outside activities, complicated worries or half a dozen other causes. He is sent to a physician of body or of mind to be straightened out. On the other hand, if a man who tests low receives top marks in his examinations, the test and the course are scrutinized with equal care...
...advancing. Traditionally, as President Lowell says, we have proceeded "on general principles," assuming that young men are, "for practical (educational) purposes equivalent." Under the elective system, progress was thought to consist in multiplying the number of "courses" provided and the number of instructors. As all students were born equal, so were all subjects. It was a system of laissez faire. Today progress consists in "thinking not of the course but of the student as the unit." Education is measured by the "character energy and ambition" which he develops; and, correspondingly, the ability of a teacher is judged not merely...
...Trade Center that has been moved to Staten Island. Conlon has no ambitions as a whistle-blower or a hero--he's neither a Serpico nor a Supercop--and that keeps Blue Blood free of distortion and full of perspective. The result is a document with a testimonial force equal to that of Michael Herr's Dispatches...