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...unwise to make too much of Huntsinger's study, which focused on a small group of families. All experts agree that weighing second-graders down with hours of homework is pointless and probably damaging to their self-esteem and desire to learn. But in reasonable amounts, homework has value for students at all grade levels. "Homework has benefits that go well beyond its immediate direct impact on what's going on in school," says Cooper. Doing homework is important for honing organizational skills, learning how to manage time and developing the ability to learn autonomously...
...pointless to make excuses or say, "what if." Harvard is still 2-5, and that still stinks...
...poet Richard Wilbur, "comes from being in a bottle." I'm no biologist, but my guess is that the male human animal was programmed for silence. One can make us talk counter to our genetic makeup, but it is like training kangaroos to box. It's mildly entertaining but pointless...
That being said, it seems pointless to mention that the 163-page collection of totally fabricated celebrity dirt is perhaps a little too darkly funny for some of us. (Don't worry; it will be mentioned anyway.) Stewart's bizarre sense of humor--an almost schizophrenic mating of pseudo-highbrow Lampoon humor with seventh grade locker room jokes--brought him notoriety, though not much air time, on the short-lived "Jon Stewart Show" on MTV. In book form, however, his alternatingly grotesque and hysterical comedic style finds a happy home. These are not jokes that would work in a standup...
What elevates Chucky into the sublime, though, is the little things: Jennifer Tilly thrusting her pelvis in perhaps the least subtle come-on in screen history, the movie's weird obsession with killing people by electrocution, the frequent unexplained continuity errors, its pointless and empty pop-culture references which fall endearingly flat, and pearls of dialogue like, "I'll kill anybody, but I'll only sleep with someone I love" and "Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny plastic butt...