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...first scene, we are greeted by a Gandhi doppelgänger who puts Ben Kingsley to shame, but whose finest rhetoric (“my love is soft as a blossom and hard as a rock”) cannot get his errant pupil back on track...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Indian Epic Focuses on Gandhi's Political Rival | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

...easiest thing for him to start coaching the No. 1 in the world," he says. "I will lose matches, and I don't think we should start blaming him, because he won't have done anything wrong. He's only trying to help." Still, the pupil's rivals will be hoping that the newest member of Team Federer is no help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of a Slam | 1/17/2005 | See Source »

Still, this increase may do little in the face of the estimated 15 percent drop in real state expenditures per pupil in Massachusetts between 2002 and 2004, a figure cited in a report by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center...

Author: By Susan E. Mcgregor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge May See Boost in Aid | 1/12/2005 | See Source »

...base materialism is indeed Pollock’s most important legacy to younger artists, then in Kline’s case we can certainly say that the pupil has surpassed the master. Looking at a Pollock, you might be vaugely disturbed by it’s aggressive materiality, but looking at Kline, I have to say I was positively repulsed. There is something uncannily biological about the pattern of deep crevices and protruding nubs of encaustic that build up its mounded surface. It reminds me of a giant fungus-—if I reached out and touched...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Paintings | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...discrepancies baffle Fornero because the median family income in the integrated city is $71,293 and the district spends a generous $9,234 on each pupil. Furthermore, the vast majority of students come from homes in which at least one parent is college educated. "How do I market the district to African-American parents with these numbers?" he says of the black students' performance. "We can't have one set of facts we put on billboards in front of the schools and another set we don't talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing The Gap | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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