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...proving—via his own example—that “gut” classes and delinquent students exist at even this great university, Douthat does no more than acknowledge that Harvard students are more normal than the traditional “egghead” stereotype might allow. And despite the fact that an exposé of this sort seems to pop up every few months, the article’s success proves that this sort of revelation is clearly still considered newsworthy...
Apparently, civil rights are so 40 years ago. Today they exist only on paper for workers, thanks to the union-busting tactics of employers and the complicity of Bush’s National Labor Relations Board. A recent Human Rights Watch report confirmed that workers across the United States are being prevented from forming associations of their choice. Intimidation and discrimination is at a level unparalleled since the Gilded Age. Only now, the methods are slicker, the modes of control more sophisticated...
...also be the fastest growing group in Lebanon, their share of the population now possibly greater than their share of the power arrangements. And then there are the Palestinians, a refugee population sustained by visions of returning to homes in towns and villages in Israel that no longer exist, impoverished, enraged and more than likely to be the big losers of an eventual Israeli-Palestinian peace...
...fact, the whole picture runs much like an extended sitcom, complete with obtrusive music meant to telegraph the emotions of a given scene. And like a bad episode of 7th Heaven, the stakes don’t really exist. The characters are sheltered from the harshness of reality so that no matter what, every problem has its solutions. One can guess that this doesn’t make for very exciting drama. And with none of the memorable characters that help keep audiences attached to their favorite sitcoms, viewers of this film may be left wanting anything to keep their...
...core problem is that the characters are nothing more than a writer’s conceits—for example the perversely obnoxious kids that bully Bobby at school, the kind of kids that only exist in bad movies. Consequently, their behavior never seems real. They are never allowed to stray too far from the idea of what they are supposed to be, whether that is workaholic dad, passive mom, bratty kids...