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...journey, because it's ultimately very optimistic." Though he's one of Australia's greatest cultural exports, Miller is less sanguine when it comes to the local film industry and its ability to send stories to the world. As just one example, he cites the late adventurer Steve Irwin, who recorded his elephant-seal role in Happy Feet just months before his September death this year. "Irwin was Australian not only in his persona but in his actions," Miller says. "And that's gone from us now. I think that applies a lot to our culture ? We're exporting...
...worrying not too much but too little. Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina brought calls to build impregnable walls against such tragedies ever occurring again. But despite the vows, both New Orleans and the nation's security apparatus remain dangerously leaky. "People call these crises wake-up calls," says Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness. "But they're more like snooze alarms. We get agitated for a while, and then we don't follow through...
...getting them into either Oxford or Cambridge, which would greatly enhance school's prestige. Or so, at least, its cranky and clueless headmaster believes. He places an eccentric teacher named Hector (Richard Griffiths) in charge of their tuition, then adds a newcomer to the faculty, a man named Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore...
...Irwin taking an exam is an exercise in gaming the system. He knows that the Oxbridge dons are bored witless by papers that simply regurgitate the standard academic line. Instead, he urges the boys to mild outrage - if, for example, you're writing about World War II, try to find something good to say about Stalin. Or even Hitler. The point is simply to get into a good college, by whatever means possible, and not be distracted by the delights of learning for its own sake. He represents results-oriented modernism. For him, as opposed to Hector...
...that's not really its main point. What Bennett most wants to show us is that Hector's homosexuality is preferable to the more closeted variety practiced by the extremely smooth Irwin. Bennett is also arguing, in his quiet and very civilized way, that especially in the context of an English public school almost a quarter of a century ago, homosexuality was not a very big deal. Bennett, who is an openly gay writer, accepts it as a part of life - particularly as a part of life in English public schools - something the boys come to terms with in essentially...