Word: factly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only flaw preventing Darabont's triumphant second effort from being perfect is the manner in which the story begins and ends. Told as a flashback by an older Edgecomb sixty years after the fact, the story opens with scenes that take place in the present. This set-up at the beginning of the film is fine, but the ending just doesn't work. Immediately after the final scene from 1935, the story shifts back to the present for a wrap-up that comes across as contrived (the same problem plagued Saving Private Ryan). Instead of ending the film...
...example, the fact that Greek and Turkish music have influenced each other is much more "fruitful ground" than political differences...
Berkeley may be powerless to increase diversity in its student body, but the diversity of the faculty is a goal well within their reach, as faculty committees are largely responsible for hiring new professors. Noguera says he finds these committees' inaction, and the fact that they have failed to increase the numbers of women and minorities in their ranks, reprehensible...
According to Summergrad, it was difficult for the committee to conclude that mental health services are in fact understaffed...
...kids. A child from a low-income white family is three times more likely to have Internet access than a child from a black family with a comparable income - and four times more likely than a Hispanic child. That disparity, says TIME columnist Jack White, is due to the fact that being poor affects low-income black children's lives in a more broad-reaching way than it does poor white children. "Low-income black kids are more likely than poor white kids to attend isolated inner-city schools and visit public libraries without Internet access, or even computers," says...