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...frustration, along with his solitary nature, led him to pioneer the now-common practice of independent financing. It was via this method that Malick made his first feature, “Badlands,” in 1973. Five years after “Badlands” came “Days of Heaven,” which film critic Roger Ebert has placed in the “Great Movies” section of his website, commenting calling it “above all one of the most beautiful films ever made. Malick’s purpose...
...college students across the nation. In a survey conducted by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, only 31 students out of the 161 students who committed suicide at 333 colleges sought mental-health treatment on their campus. Currently, Harvard has not chosen to adopt this method, but Director of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling Paul J. Barreira is now leading an effort in evaluating the success of these methods. Barreira, who is also an associate professor of psychiatry, said that he has not found enough persuasive evidence in favor of this study to conclude that the University...
...Shall Live? In the article about a new method of screening fetuses for Down syndrome in the first trimester [Nov. 21], TIME asked, "Is a life with the syndrome worth living?" Perhaps we should think again about what Americans value. We pride ourselves on our tolerance and progress against discrimination. Yet encouragement to terminate less-than-perfect pregnancies will surely lead to more discrimination against the living handicapped. Can we praise ourselves as a nondiscriminatory society when we question whether people who are not the most highly functioning are worth saving, let alone worth tolerating or protecting? Megan Smylie Vernon...
...communicating that we're in an era when the church meets in a variety of ways," Haggard says. "This is what makes American Evangelicalism so great. We're so diverse. The meaning of Christmas is more important than the church service itself. The message is more important than the method...
...better communications. Bush dashed into the Rose Garden late last week to declare that the economy "continues to gain strength and momentum." The event had been thrown together so quickly that the usual velvet ropes were not set up to pen back journalists. "We're trying the trusting method," an aide joked. Merry glasnost...