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...There are differences too, of course. For one thing, today's terrorists have replaced Marxist ideology with religion. But that distinction may not be as great as we think. "If it was just about religion it wouldn't have the same impact," says Hoffman. "Religion is just the glue that holds it together, but it's not the most important part. It's political...
...million dollars for the homeless with the movie. It won the Humanitas [Sundance Film Category] Award for writing. I read it and it just broke me down. I guess being a man you have this fantasy that you have to succeed, and you're the provider and the glue to the family and all that responsibility. What happens when you fail at that...
...stay focused during your shows with stuff like that happening and all these people up on stage with you? Sometimes it's intense. During the actual performance, I kind of just glue my eyes on the screen and there's so much going on around me it's almost like half the time is spent just doing damage control, making sure things aren't being broken, and half the time focusing on clicking the mouse every ten seconds...
...Accusations of the band betraying their punk credentials are nothing new - it says so on page 113 of The Clash, their first official autobiography. In the words of front man Joe Strummer, "fanzine Sniffin' Glue wrote 'Punk Rock died the day the Clash signed to Columbia' [in 1977]." In reality, mainstream success didn't kill their principles: as the band recounts, when their week-long residency at Bond's Casino in New York City was oversold, they stayed on and played 17 shows until every ticket holder had seen them live. Filled with such details, the book erases...
...even our own, in any very precise way? Now is hardly the time to insist on a reactionary return to a pedagogy that permits only dry book learning. (If anything, the students themselves would not tolerate such a regression.) And as an industry builds around the quest to glue young people to their TV screen, the least we can do is turn a dubious development in a more unambiguously positive direction. The educational games and interactive novels described in the Times report pass the Hippocratic test of viability as teaching tools: They, evidently, do no harm. But almost as important...