Word: homework
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...release of ambitious films at year's end has nothing to do with noel and everything to do with the Dec. 31 deadline for Academy Award qualifiers. While real people flock to Scream 2, movie people begin their homework by seeing Oscar contenders. Most of these films don't open till Christmas, but we can't wait. Here are five shiny baubles for right now. IT'S PULP, BUT IT AIN'T QUITE PULP FICTION...
Requiring volunteer work is no more slavery than requiring that students do homework or run around a track during gym. A requirement for graduation is not a law. True, there is a consequence for failing to do these things--no graduation--but there are consequences for failing to do any number of things in life. The choice, however, is still there, with no legal penalty. Slavery is involuntary. Community service is not. MILTON B. ROUSE, Teacher of English Dana Hills High School Dana Point, Calif...
...Dylan sleeps. But Payanzo, an anthropology concentrator, is also taking more difficult classes this semester and works five to six hours a week at the Derek Bok Learning Center for Teaching and Learning. No longer a complacent newborn, Dylan will no longer listen patiently as Payanzo reads her French homework to him. Instead, he tears out the pages from her African history textbook...
...struggling urban schools afford to build good community-service programs--ones that count hours, find worthwhile volunteering opportunities and make sure the students aren't toiling at filing cabinets? And should inner-city students be asked to shove aside family duties and needed jobs--to say nothing of homework--to make room for the new requirement...
...flag signaling a potentially looted object. In the case of Searle's Degas, German dealer Hans Wendland, who operated all but openly as a fence disposing of the Nazi trove, apparently transferred the painting during the war. "It's just obvious that people buying art need to do their homework, just as they would when they purchase real estate, used cars or even livestock," says Thomas Kline, who represents the Goodmans and has emerged as this country's most prominent lawyer in the field of art recovery...