Word: giftedness
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It has a nice steamy title - In the Bedroom - but no particular sexual heat. Todd Field, its first-time feature director, seems never to have looked at, let alone made, a music video. This is a patient movie, carefully studying what happens to an unexciting middle-class couple, Matt and...
The production benefits from a gifted cast who, under the direction of Katherine M. Bencowitz ’03, clearly understands and conveys the fundamental source of the play’s humor. It is evident that all the actors know their characters inside and out; more importantly, their performances...
The SAT is open to anyone who pays a $25 fee, and parents are having their kids take it at younger and younger ages--for practice, for bragging rights, for a chance to get into programs for gifted children at universities like Johns Hopkins. More than 172,000 students in...
There's even a practice run for peewee test takers. To join "gifted" programs, students in grades 3 through 6 can take an ACT designed for eighth-graders. It's not for my kids, though. They have cartoons to watch, CDs to play, childhoods to live. I cringed when I...
Though all birds are gifted with a share of grace, only the crane, with its stately neck and stirring wings, can claim royal bloodlines. In ancient China, Prince Yi of Wie gave cranes the rank of civil servants and generals, while in Japan they were considered sages and became the...