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...eight weeks into college and four weeks behind in “Philosophy of Law??—and it’s not my fault. No, it’s not that midnight pillow fights with my roommate have taken precedence over my readings. It’s just that the class hasn’t quite finished talking about the last assigned passage…the one due Oct. 14. Surprisingly, our limited productivity is due to a nasty habit of that adored pet of pedagogy, Discussion, which especially in small classes likes to take advantage...
...realistically speaking—and as evidenced by the 34-student “Philosophy of Law??—the oftentimes unstructured nature of discussions can be less than satisfying. This is not to deny that discussion is a fundamentally good thing. Ideally, we get to share ideas, challenge beliefs and get drunkenly swept away into the whirlwind vortex of passionate opinions and academic interchange. But when one tangential question leads to another, students can get caught up in all the minor nuances of ideas, until by the end Little Red Riding Hood has stepped...
Prime Minister Allawi’s recent declaration of a state of emergency—and martial law??adds further doubt to the state of the occupation. Iraq is in shambles; unless security is restored soon—and we hope it is—the nation may cease to exist as a modern state. No doubt many of the measures in Allawi’s declaration were needed to ensure the short-term safety of Iraqi civilians, but we wonder what this forebodes for a democracy that as yet exists only in the minds of American geopolitical...
...clothes, the car, and the looks to get any girl—and he does, with an endless string of paramours ranging wildly from an aging cosmetics empress (Susan Sarandon) to a flighty, semi-psychotic teenager. But the car is borrowed, the suits were on sale, and beneath Law??s charming smirk is a calculating mind. Alfie has no warmth or romanticism, despite his British charm. The movie captures his gradual comprehension of that emptiness surprisingly well. His self-discovery is aided by the stylistic device of Alfie’s narration directly to the audience...
...Jude Law??s acting, on the other hand, has just the right touch of joviality and supreme confidence with which Alfie begins the movie; with better writing the narrative would flow more seamlessly. Law is also successful in depicting Alfie’s subtle discontent with his increasingly dispassionate analyses of each girlfriend. This discontent only deepens in the course of Alfie’s misadventures throughout the film...