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...answer, more often than not, is nowhere. Across the U.S., average students like Brian Wennerstrum--a group researchers call "woodwork children" because of their tendency to fade into the classroom background--are suffering from an unofficial policy of neglect as public schools overlook students in the middle in favor of the bright stars or the learning disabled. The share of public-school budgets devoted to "regular education"--which almost two-thirds of students receive--plummeted from 80% in 1967 to less than 59% in 1996, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The trend has accelerated in the past decade. From...
Think of what has happened in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Omagh, Northern Ireland, whenever you read of free-world democratic governments urging Israel to give up its security. Terrorism isn't just a remote Middle East phenomenon, and it will not fade away unless all governments understand the real danger and take appropriate action. AMNON KARIV Raanana, Israel...
...happened to be about sex. What a pity. Because what distinguished this lie was not its substance but the venue: a court of law. Yes, the underlying story is salacious, titillating and, in an appalling way, amazing. Which is what made it such a public sensation. But even sensations fade away. This...
...deep power that both Clinton and Gantry have over people comes not from intelligence or a fancy education, but from love laced with vulgarity. Accused of being crude by Falconer's business manager, Gantry responds: "You're too good for the people. I am the people." Fade out to what every honest person has been thinking these past seven months, about not reaching for the first stone. The point that Lewis made with Gantry was that the preacher was also a man. Draped in the refuse of his flock's fury, Gantry asks, "What were they so mad about anyhow...
...airstrip where Henry and Joey occasionally meet to discuss their eel-trapping. Dream sequences in which Joey attempts to come to terms both with his new vocation and the "creature" that’s living inside their bedroom wall are filmed in wonderful blues and reds which fade into and out of one another as he traverses the line between sleep and consciousness. Additionally, some of the symbolism inherent to the filming works particularly well. Frequent images of a Fisher Price record player serve as a continual reminder that Joey and Sissel are themselves merely children, prematurely throwing themselves into...