Word: homework
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...witty banter. ("If this wasn't hell," Christine says of her living arrangements, "it was the lobby.") But why isn't it more fun? Partly because Morrison is so interested in the play of memory and time and point of view that readers have to do a lot of homework just to figure out what's going on. Partly because, like so many master portraitists, Morrison is drawn to ugly people, so readers spend a lot of time in the company of some very bitter, bitchy old biddies. But mostly because, for a book that comes on all hard-boiled...
...There’s not a whole lot to do in Hartford, and I don’t have a car yet, so I can’t move around too much. I wish I had some homework or something...
...street in Dorchester, 6-year-old Tony runs up to Nguyen and grabs her hand to hold all the way to the Vietnamese American Community Center, where he works on his homework after school. As Tony, one of Nguyen’s students from the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) BRYE program, showed off his artwork and read aloud “Five Little Pumpkins,” Nguyen whispers, “He’s definitely one of my favorites, even though we’re not supposed to have favorites...
...hard to tell for sure whether a six-year-old can sit still long enough to “love learning.” Something’s working though. Still excited from his chance meeting with Nguyen on the streets of Dorchester, Tony wanted to finish his homework with her even as the other kids zipped up their coats for the park...
...archive will allow BBC-owned content--from news to sport to drama--to be downloaded and used for noncommercial purposes. Initially, the Beeb envisages educational uses like schoolchildren downloading documentary footage for their multimedia homework projects. However, though the BBC has offered no launch date or technical details, the creative archive can also be seen as a play by the company to position itself as a major force in global broadband...