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Despite the potential perils of gambling, some object to the act itself because it can be seen as an attempt to address the morality of gambling...
...Math Wars. With American kids foundering on state math exams and getting clobbered on international tests by their peers in Singapore and Belgium, parents and policymakers have been searching for a culprit. They've found it in the math equivalent of whole language--so-called fuzzy math, an object of parental contempt from coast to coast. Fuzzy math, properly called reform math, is the bastard child of teaching standards introduced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (N.C.T.M) in 1989. Like whole language, it was a sensible approach that got distorted into a parody of itself. The reform standards...
Fast Food Nation Fox Searchlight Directed by Richard Linklater 1 Star If “Super-Size Me” is the documentary version of street-corner proselytizing against evil corporate junk food, “Fast Food Nation” is its object-lesson counterpart, tediously preaching to the proverbial choir. Director Richard Linklater’s much-anticipated feature film “Fast Food Nation” is not a documentary. Rather, it is a fictional account that dramatizes the nonfiction book by the same name, written by Eric Schlosser, the film’s co-author...
...Brooks' next picture was The Canary Murder Case, in which she played the Canary. As in A Girl in Every Port, she a showgirl floating above the crowd, this time on a swing - an object for men to look up at and covet. Her contract with Paramount was coming to an end, so she skitted off to Berlin to play Lulu in Pandora...
...father's most trusted consiglieres to step in and help clean up his mess overseas. Neither man appreciates the chortling sounds coming from the vast Bush 41 crowd, which has long harbored grave doubts about the soundness of 43's foreign policy team. The biggest question is how the object of the intervention will react. As one senior official in the 41 White House says of the President, "He can fight this and turn into a constantly warring figure, or he can turn back into the friendly wise guy who gets along with everyone. The latter will serve him much...