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...recent ad placed in major national newspapers by the presidents of 113 colleges and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges announced a joint effort to deal with the problem of student binge drinking. This advertising campaign signals a major change in the way that colleges are responding to the alcohol problem on their campuses. The problem has moved from the agenda of assistant deans of students to the desks of college presidents. It is openly discussed in the New York Times rather than being kept hidden to avoid embarrassment to a school's reputation...
...Although the major action of the novels takes place in a magical land of wizards, the real world is never far away. In contrast to older children's novels which featured white-bread boys' schools, Rowling's Hogwarts School is co-ed, and its pupils come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. And like so many of today's movies and TV programs, Rowling's story is straightforward about the tragedies and violence in its characters' lives. Harry has painful memories of his mother screaming as she is brutally murdered, and each book contains descriptions of suffering and tragedy...
...Kubrick's final film was an exercise in mediocrity. It was supposed to be his thunderous masterpiece, a rousing conclusion to a brilliant career. But alas, it was hyped to no end and the expectations clouded reality. Tom and Nicole took their clothes off over and over for every major magazine and everyone cheered the possibilities. A real-life married couple having sex! Orgies! An intellectual movie for the masses! But it was DOA. The problem, of course, is that Kubrick forgot to give a film its center. In Schnitzler's novel, which was faithfully adapted (part of the problem...
...rare occurrence when a movie as subtle and, yes, tender as The Sixth Sense becomes a major summer hit. Billed as a riveting film about ghosts, The Sixth Sense is really an examination of what we the living need in our lives. It begins by focusing on a trio of outcasts in this world: Bruce Willis as a psychologist estranged from his wife, Toni Collette as a lonely single mom and Haley Joel Osment as her socially awkward son. But before long the film makes isolation a theme capable of transcending worlds. The ghosts in writer/director M. Night Shyamalan...
...spite of a major nationwide push in 1995, the movement for an ethnic studies department at Harvard has stalled...