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...Darjeeling Limited” was in reversing this formula instead of developing on it. But the utterly blank faces of Fox, his family, and friends—posturing, wry, flummoxed, or brooding countenances as they fit their respective characters—allow for development that’s left totally up to the script. Fox’s son Ash, voiced by Jason Schwartzman, another perennial Anderson collaborator, strikes the perfect timbre between obnoxious humor and endearing awkwardness. Schwartzman’s delivery is appropriately adolescent, all but reprising a more frustrated Max Fischer—the protagonist...
We’ve heard what the American critics have had to say about President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night. On the left, critics voice concern that we are digging ourselves further into a very costly hole. On the right, the talking points were that the speech was insufficiently militant and that Obama failed to provide a sense of assured victory. But, then again, it’s hard to know exactly what the commentariat was looking for. Bill O’Reilly criticized that Tuesday’s speech “was no Gettysburg...
...weaker at every turn in the process. Under a deal to win hospitals' support for the bill, the Senate Finance Committee agreed they would be exempt from the commission's recommendations at least through 2019; doctors, hospices and medical-equipment suppliers would be beyond its reach entirely. Who is left? Maybe no one. "The exception for hospitals and other providers is fundamentally counter to the goals of the original bill, and I will work to see that it is removed," says Senator Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Finance Committee's health care subcommittee and an original proponent of the idea...
...Department of Education, sensitive to such criticisms as well as to the years-long frustration with No Child Left Behind's focus on testing, is hoping to use turnarounds to place the focus more on "growth models," in which the most important measurement is not a single year's test score but rather whether students are improving from year to year. (Currently, NCLB requires states to simply take a snapshot of students based on their year-end standardized test scores, as opposed to tracking advancement over time...
These are examples of how kids go to school in Pakistan nowadays, owing to a ferocious campaign of violence by the Pakistani Taliban against schools all over the country that has left parents panicking, students uneasy and educators worried about whether they're doing enough to protect kids in the middle of a war. Schools have been turned into fortresses, and some students have made attending class an act of defiance. (See pictures of the tensions roiling Pakistan...