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...surprise is Megan Mullally, who finally sheds her Will & Grace persona with the character of voice teacher Fran Rowan. In one of the most compelling scenes in the film, she takes her kids out to sing karaoke, wows them with her own skills, and then tries to explain why she never "made it." Ms. Rowan's self-confident shell falls away and you see the kids absorbing the fact that all the promise in the world can be worn down by the grind of just trying to be noticed. It's a nice dose of reality in a slick, prettily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fame: More Kids Who Want to Live Forever | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...explain in the book that empathy really starts with our bodies: running together, laughing together, yawning together. So yawning really is contagious? Yeah. Dogs catch yawns from their owners. Chimpanzees yawn [in response to those] that we show them. Yawn contagion is very interesting because it's a very deep bodily connection between humans or between animals. Humans who have problems with empathy, such as autistic children, don't have yawn contagion. It's either because they don't pay attention to the yawns of others or they're not affected by them. (Read about the secrets inside your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Humans Actually Selfish? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...It’s an extraordinary opportunity to educate quite a lot of people in Korea about Judaism in our own words from our perspective,” said Harvard Hillel Associate Director Michael Simon in an interview before the filming. During the discussion, students sought to explain the role of Judaism in their lives. Some students spoke about Judaism’s spiritual aspects, while others stressed the cultural facet of their tradition. “It’s the foods I eat, the language I read, the words I use at home,” said Reyzl...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Korean TV Tapes Students at Hillel | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...said, adding that today’s media has very few positive things to say about the military. “If there was a space on campus where interested Harvard students could go to understand what the military is all about, maybe [the ROTC] could explain and give them the chance to understand. That would be helpful.” Shawna L. Sinnott ’10, the Vice President of the Harvard ROTC Association, agreed that Harvard’s policy was partly to blame for the flat enrollment. “Because of Harvard?...

Author: By Leeann Saw, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROTC Enrollment Up Nationwide | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

After citing the contractual writings in ancient Mesopotamia as the first system of (albeit primitive) literature, D’Agata proceeded to explain that these writings represented the “worst kind of nonfiction there is”: writing which seeks solely to convey information...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

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