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Movies may glamorize mayhem while serving as a fantasy safety valve. A steady diet of megaviolence may coarsen the young psyche--but some films may instruct it. Heathers and Natural Born Killers are crystal-clear satires on psychopathy, and The Basketball Diaries is a mordant portrait of drug addiction. Payback is a grimly synoptic parody of all gangster films. In three weeks, 15 million people have seen The Matrix and not gone berserk. And Carrie 2 is a crappy remake of a 1976 hit that led to no murders...
Highly successful ongoing projects include Account Services, which answers e-mail inquiries directed at HCS. HCS also directs a variety of seminars, which instruct students in the use of HTML, Photoshop, and other Web-related programs. More recently, HCS has completed an online calendar accessible to students from the Harvard College Web site...
...that he feels "the upcoming semester should be great." He added that over the past semester, the Society's active membership has doubled to a total of 63. This jump was largely thanks to the "Welcoming Program," a brainchild of David B. Alpert '00, which used "theme days" to instruct students in Web design and computer systems...
...workbook, give them to students and say, 'This is your homework.'" Too many teachers send kids home with mind-numbing math worksheets that are not even reviewed the next day. Too many are enamored of those unwieldy "projects" that seem to exasperate kids more than they instruct them and that lead to excessive parent involvement. For young students, the optimal arrangement would mix skill-building drills with creative tasks closely tied to what's being taught in the classroom--such as interviewing grandparents as a social-studies lesson or using soccer standings to teach rudimentary statistics...
Stellino went on to demonstrate a few of hisnewest recipes while at the same time making plugsfor family values in cooking, including theresponsibility of older chefs to instruct novices...