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...private and interactive e-education has benefited only those children whose parents take initiative. The public education system is right to treat knowledge as too essential a commodity to be left for only the wealthy to enjoy; That is, it is morally correct to subsidize education. However, its proponents fail to understand the absurdity—in light of modern innovations in learning—of maintaining the status quo and subsidizing the school (to the tune of $10 thousand per pupil per year) rather than subsidizing the student...
...profiled authors who concealed their identities for social propriety, literary promotion, or mere mischief.Others, like John Locke, were forced into concealment by the necessity to avoid persecution in a time when their writings challenged the prevailing religious or political norms. The authorities of the Tudor and the Stuart eras, failing to uncover these anonymous authors, in turn executed printers.By the 18th century, anonymity became less a matter of mortal safety and more a strategy for marketing. Readers and reviewers were left to speculate on the gender and identity for the author. Jonathan Swift, author of “Gulliver?...
...terrible stares of incomprehension during her trial. And Revolutionary Road pivots on the scene in which April, sitting on the beach next to her husband, realizes that he is never going to keep his promise that they'll move to Paris - that he will always ultimately fail her. It's a shattering realization that Winslet conveys not only mutely but behind dark glasses. (See pictures of people who were nominated for leading and supporting Oscars in the same year...
...Prognosis: Defibrillator. Stat! Wells Fargo is generally considered one of the banks that are least likely to fail. But our stress test says otherwise. Even with its $58 billion loan-loss buffer, Wells is still in the hole for $59 billion, or 60% of its capital. With $40 billion remaining and an expected $5 billion in income, the bank could sink to a less-than-rosy leverage ratio...
...council’s members fail to act once the arrest warrant has been issued, then they will set a precedent that diminishes not only the deterrent potential of justice but also their own authority. If the Security Council allows a sitting head of state to remain in power after the ICC has indicted him for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and perhaps even genocide, then it will have ceded a bit of its own power...