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Etingof attributes much of the difficulty ofthe course to the homework...
...athletes must face--the daily threat that an inferior force might vanquish them. Athletic heroism attains the heights of glory through its very proximity to defeat. And it dramatizes the worth of workaday values we want our kids and our neighbors' kids to absorb: diligent attention to practice and homework, concentration, persistence, equanimity, teamwork...
...They have to do their homework. They have to start early," Dunn says. "They have to use their resources. They should not be waiting until the last minute...
DreamWorks flew in dozens of religious experts and clergy for repeated discussions about the film. And Katzenberg did his homework, reading up so extensively on the Bible that he began to sound more like a yeshiva student than the college dropout he is. But as Katzenberg discovered, everyone's a movie critic. An elderly Fundamentalist minister didn't like the drawings; a rabbinical scholar complained that in the Bible "God has a great line" that wasn't in the film, and also objected to the fact that Moses, who should be around 80 when he returns to confront Rameses, looks...
Sometimes we know we're getting hit up for a homework assignment (we don't do homework); occasionally we find ourselves settling trivia questions. But, more often than not, requests reflect a genuine interest in something readers have seen in the magazine--and a confidence that we can come up with the right answer. Some recent examples...