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...been missing. For us, there was a profound difference between living together as partners with an uncertain future and being husband and wife. I wonder if Cloud and his partner might still be together, as happy as my wife and I are, if they had been allowed the same freedom to marry. John Martin, San Diego...
...Those who stay involved and make their wishes known influence what happens. It would be nice to be able to elect a President who would just run the country without any future involvement from us, but in a democracy, participation is the price we pay to ensure our continued freedom and way of life. Robert Hanlon, CHELMSFORD, MASS...
...direction of “Exposed,” shooting with low-budget, Super 35 film and not shying away from the inherent ugliness and imperfections of her characters.Miniucchi envisioned each scene of the film as a continuous take. “That would give the actors more freedom of movement and it would be more natural, more suitable to the material that we were trying to film.”Miniucchi points to director Robert Altman as a major influence in her style of camerawork. After filming a lecture Altman delivered at Harvard while she was a student, Miniucchi...
...skies when it opened in 1941. But the resemblance of Charles Foster Kane to publisher William Randolph Hearst cued a campaign to suppress the movie, and Kane flopped in its initial release. In addition, many in the industry rankled at Welles' boy-genius rep and may have resented the freedom this first-timer was given by his studio, RKO. Under these circumstances, it's probably a miracle that the film received nine Oscar nominations, including three for Welles as actor, director and co-screenwriter. In the end, it won only for the screenplay, and John Ford's How Green...
...Ignoring the fact that NCLB was under funded by 12 billion in 2006, one of the biggest problems with the program is that it does not put enough emphasis on rehabilitating schools once they have been deemed in need of improvement. Instead of allowing states complete freedom to fix failing schools, NCLB should put more pressure on the states to spend time and resources on innovative ways to improve failing schools. Each state should be mandated to have a general restructuring plan with specific steps that each school should follow in order to improve standards of education. This plan should...