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...surveyed, seniors’ scores reflected less than a 2 percent improvement over the performance of freshmen, and the ISI noticed relatively poorer senior scores, with respect to freshmen, at 16 of the schools it surveyed. This relative stagnation or decline, however, may simply reflect that, yes, college students forget some of the facts and dates they memorize in high school. Even if America is truly facing a crisis of civics education, the ISI has missed the point. Rather than focusing our energy on the college years, we ought to focus on combating the problem at its source: by offering...
DICAPRIO: Taxi Driver. Travis Bickle. It's weird because you watch a certain film at a young age and it impacts you in a way you can't even describe. You're watching this maniac, and he's really insane, but you are so immersed in him that you forget you're watching a movie and you start to feel insane. And then there's the profound embarrassment I felt when he brought the girl to the porno theater, and--Oh no! What is he doing? I was with you! I know you've got problems, but I was with...
...Senator Robert Menendez and Republican Thom H. Kean Jr. is being watched intensely, as is Rhode Island Republican Lincoln D. Chafee’s effort to keep his Senate seat in a race against Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse after narrowly winning his party’s primary. And who could forget the nationally spotlighted Senate race in Connecticut, which pits Democrat Edward “Ned” Lamont Jr. ’76 against former vice presidential candidate and incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman, now running as an independent, in what has turned into a referendum on the war in Iraq...
...advantage, establishing himself as the go-to Hollywood gentleman who can tackle dark humor. And it’s oddly fitting that Thornton would be teaching a class on masculinity—while he may not have Brad Pitt’s looks, let’s not forget that he was banging Angelina Jolie for a few years. His curt response to Roger about pursuing Amanda is even a possible jab at his former wife—“it’s not like you were getting ready to adopt a Chinese baby together...
...Searchlight Pictures Directed by Kevin Macdonald 4.5 stars Forget “helping people” and “making a difference”—these are Nicholas Garrigan’s (James McAvoy, “The Chronicles of Narnia”) vague, romanticized hopes when, fresh out of medical school, he sets off for Uganda in “The Last King of Scotland.” But Garrigan painfully learns that idealism is not so simple, not to mention potentially dangerous, in this grittily realistic thriller based on the actual political climate of 1970s...