Word: exceptionality
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...seven teachers at Bassett who are, in effect, wired for sound. Nearly every word to her students is amplified through speakers wirelessly linked to a small blue transmitter dangling from her neck. Because she began using the technology three years ago, Larcey barely notices the device, except for the rare instances when she forgets to switch it on. "It's obvious. The kids just don't pay attention in the same way," she says. Bassett has joined the growing ranks of schools embracing a deceptively simple technology at a time when federal No Child Left Behind accountability standards are compelling...
...Angeles and San Francisco, and in other cities next week, is a sweet, very funny, volcanically romantic comedy-drama about relationships in post-9/11 New York City. It could slip comfily into any slot at the Sundance Film Festival, or the art-house screen at your local multiplex, except for one thing: it has lots of explicit, hard-core...
...tumblers, as well as Bernstein’s candidly expressive language. After the Kroks sang a song he’d written for them, Bernstein gave the young musicians an analogy they were bound to remember: "You know what you understand, what very few jazz people understand, except the good ones, is that every beat is a downbeat, and no beat is a downbeat," he says on the tape...
...were young and made me feel at ease. The woman told me how awesome it was that I wrote for The Crimson—she’d never finished her comp. I got the job. But 02138 couldn’t tell me what I would be doing, except to say it would involve a lot of research. I also got the impression that their view of Harvard was closer to what they thought readers wanted it to be than what they had experienced. In the end, I didn’t take it. I’m glad...
...march down a post-apocalyptic road? Why not put a damn blimp above it with a sign that reads “The Black Parade,” just in case there’s any confusion? Why not ramp up the drama by making it black and white except for splashes of red, and topping the whole thing off with snow? Why not give lead singer Gerard Way a really unfortunate bleach job? There is actually a storyline of sorts in the video, in which a person with an undefined disease, attended by the kind of nurses rarely seen...