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High schools, meanwhile, find themselves fending off parents who expect instant responses to every e-mail; who request a change of teacher because of "poor chemistry" when the real issue is that the child is getting a poor grade; who seek out a doctor who will proclaim their child "exceptionally bright but with a learning difference" that requires extra time for testing; who insist that their child take five Advanced Placement classes, play three varsity sports, perform in the school orchestra and be in student government--and then complain that kids are stressed out because the school doesn...
...better deal for the band’s next project—right now, he explains, “We don’t really have distribution”—and he wants to get Grizzly Bear more listeners, but Droste isn’t expecting an instant crossover. “This music isn’t Franz Ferdinand style,” he says, accurately enough. “People won’t be like, ‘Whoa, we can totally dance to this...
...Archigram drawings and watercolors were musings about what the postindustrial city had become, a compact node of entertainments and spectacles in a society of people in motion. That's the spirit of Peter Cook's Instant City in a Field Long Elevation from 1969, a deadpan fantasia of a city with all its diversions that could be lowered from the air by balloon. The philosopher Francis Bacon once wrote that "the monuments of wit survive the monuments of power." If that's true, then these whimsical flights of fancy will still be around long after some of the uglier skylines...
...there’s a team in the league that has instant offense, it’s Pennsylvania,” Sullivan said. “I’d be surprised if [Begley] is not the player of the year at the end of the day...He’s got tremendous offensive instincts...
Krauthammersaid, "The Tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving." In the case of the U.S., however, it was hardly instant. President Bush took three days to personally acknowledge the disaster, and when he did, the amount he initially pledged--$15 million--was less than half what his supporters paid for his Inaugural festivities...