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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...
...Packer. All assignments, handouts, work sheets, what-have-you would be distributed electronically. (Thus rendering the copy machine, possibly the only device on earth less reliable than the computer, obsolete.) Students would take notes on their laptops in class, then take their laptops home and do their homework on them. To turn in an assignment, they would simply drag and drop it into the appropriate folder, where the teacher could wirelessly retrieve it. Voila: the paperless classroom...
...pictures of themselves. "I've been sick for the past two days," chirps Annie, a Packer eighth-grader, "but instead of just doing nothing and waiting to get the assignments from my friends, I could get 'em all off the email and catch up without having a ton of homework to do when I get back to school." And kids are picking up computer skills along the way: watching the fifth-graders touch-type would make an executive secretary weep. They're whizzes at video production. They speak PowerPoint like it's their mother tongue--it's how they...
...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...
...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...