Word: juniorism
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...President of the nine-person Jury at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, stood before the 2,300 cinema swells in the Lumiere Theatre this evening and told them that the top prize was awarded "unanimously": Entre les Murs, a.k.a. The Class, Laurent Cantet's affecting portrait of a Paris junior high school teacher and his restless, demanding students. Immediately a cheer went up, as Cantet, his star Francois Begaudeau and the 24 kids in the movie swarmed onstage, beaming as if they'd all graduated summa cum laude. They kept smiling through Cantet's long, fond acceptance speech, then were...
There is a family of 25 in Laurent Cantet's The Class (Entre les murs): 24 students in a Paris junior high school and their teacher. This affecting, docu-like drama is based on a book by Francois Begaudeau, a former teacher who has the lead role here. His students, a poly-ethnic bunch that includes kids whose parents come from Algeria, Mali and the Caribbean, are encouraged to challenge their teacher, to find ways to speak their most urgent thoughts. This is a French class, but the more important lessons are in self-expression and self-discipline, in learning...
...appalled to see that on your list of do's and don'ts, one of the don'ts is to ask your parents to get involved in anything other than financial aid. As the parent of a 16-year-old high school junior, I see this as nothing more than an attack on the family unit. My wife and I are both college-educated with professional careers. We are certainly capable of helping our daughter deal with being on a waitlist or any other issues around getting into college, including identifying others who might be able to help...
...West but for a return to a special Russian greatness." As for China, its "trend towards regional hegemony is unstoppable" - and "Asia is not the E.U., and China is not Luxembourg." Adding to the unsettling complexity of this situation, writes Kagan, this "club of autocrats" includes a potentially destabilizing junior partner: Iran...
...some pretty crazy conditions,” junior Rebekah Kharrazi said. “It ranged from a head wind to a cross tail. For our race [the 1V] we launched about 45 minutes before the race and we had no idea what the conditions were going to be. It was a little bit stormy, but it was typical Camden you-never-know-what-to-expect conditions. It ended up starting to rain and pouring by the end of our race. This is something that you have to be prepared for and the thing about racing is that you?...