Word: logical
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...frantic, amateur atmosphere, with a mostly maladroit cast (George Lopez lends some charm to the four roles he plays). The script, based on a notion by Rodriguez's 7-year-old son, creates a universe whose physical laws and narrative rules keep changing, thus sabotaging the film's internal logic. As Sharkboy says, "Looks like another dream gone...
...student center will help incorporate the Allston Houses into the Colleges campus. Harvard planners are already justifying the addition of student group offices to Hilles Library as an attempt to draw more students to the Quad. While we have our doubts about this strategy in this particular instance, the logic of the idea is soundit must be applied to the Allston campus as well...
...administration. In my nation- building course this semester, we discussed the transition from feudalism to absolutism. The logic of absolutist state-building basically came down to this: put one guy in charge and generate a hierarchy of technocrats, each with his or her own specialized turf, below the leader...
...Other approaches are subtler: having identified the school's most demanding and exacting parents, schools invite them to address students in class on their field of expertise. The logic is simple: the kids will learn something, and so, hopefully, will the parents - about the challenges of teaching. A primary teacher wrote two pages of grievances against parents before concluding: "As a self-confessed smother mother, I've been guilty of several of the above transgressions." When steam's not pouring from their ears, even teachers will concede that parents act in nearly all cases out of passionate concern for their...
...audience when she said her mother-in-law is less grandmother and more Don Corleone. (Barbara is telling Houston friends she loved the routine and has taken to calling herself the Don.) For her part, Hillary Clinton underestimated public resistance to her role as a policymaker. By the perverse logic of the job, Laura's great achievement is that she hasn't tried to have one--which is why she is a success. But what, really, is Laura's role? Chiefly, she has three functions...