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...these are challenging roles, not just because the American-bred stars are headlining movies set in ancient or modern London, but because Portman, Johansson and Ricci must cope with audience attitudes toward them that were formed when these women were kids...
...that be? It is widely accepted that mastering most complex human endeavors requires a minimum of 10 years' experience. The 10-year rule was posited as long ago as 1899, when Psychological Review ran a paper saying it takes at least that long to become expert in telegraphy. The modern study of expert performance began in 1973, when American Scientist published an influential article by researchers Herbert Simon and William Chase saying chess enthusiasts had to play for at least 10 years before they could win international tournaments. (Bobby Fischer was an exception; he played for nine years before becoming...
...English ancestor was "stolen" from his family at the age of 16 for catching a fish in a farmer's stream. My Irish ancestor was "stolen" from his family for protesting against British landlords. People like them and their descendants worked to build Australia as a modern nation. When Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said sorry, he did not speak for me. I have nothing to be sorry for. Aboriginal people certainly need government help in health and education, but above all they need to contribute toward their own welfare. This means getting a job, sending their children to school...
...There is no doubt that Buckley deserves much of the credit for the right-wing ascendancy of the past thirty years. Yet in spite of being a seminal presence in modern American history, he launched his career with a much different conception of the National Review’s purpose: “It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” That Buckley was dead wrong on pretty much every major historical issue of his time?...
William F. Buckley, the majestic patriarch of modern American conservatism, died yesterday at the genteel old age of 82. He was one of the last truly charismatic public intellectuals—and in this sense his passing should be lamented by anyone nostalgic for those days when ideas and the “life-of-the-mind” still mattered. Buckley was certainly an artifact of this dwindling era: He famously lost his temper on national television and blustered, in his droll blue-blood Connecticut brogue, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi...