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...spring approaches, the film seems to grow longer and longer. Lee allows an artificial sense of dramatic climax to unfold with the 1863 Bushwacker assault on Lawrence, Kansas. The viewer expects Holt and Roedel to perish in a tragic death in battle so Lee can make some sort of universal claim that war is pointless. However, Roedel and Holt merely receive injuries and miraculously, find themselves at the Shelley farm. Images of Jewel breast-feeding her child again distract the viewer and destroy whatever dramatic tension remains. In a contrived plot twist, Shelley maneuvers herself into matrimonial bliss with Roedel...
Warburton issued a special statement for summer school students who--perish the thought--might already be looking ahead to the college application process...
...countrymen and a checkered assortment of dignitaries ranging from Attorney General Janet Reno to Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi. "No night can be restful when millions have no jobs, and some are forced to beg, to rob and to murder to ensure that they and their own do not perish from hunger...
Equally important qualifications--like teaching abilities--are practically ignored. Junior Faculty know very well that they will be evaluated largely on the body of scholarship they have managed to produce--hence the saying, "publish or perish"--with all other qualifications playing a minor role in the procedure. While the tenure process requires multiple rounds of evaluations of a tenure candidate's scholarship, the University makes no such formal attempt to gauge a candidate's teaching skill...
...identity; as long as it is socially acceptable to call gays "diseased persons" and to attack them, the "love that dare not speak its name" must dare to do so--even at Harvard, whose walls protect us. If it does not, we will lose what we have gained and perish in comfortable, apathetic, fearful silence...