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...wish if he listened to TIME film critic Richard Schickel: "Other pictures that have broken out on the basis of sociological buzz, like Thelma & Louise, had appealing characters confronting interesting issues in suspenseful or comic fashion. But here all we are dealing with is sociopathic behavior that has no real-world resonance. The movie's sheer grimness militates against anyone other than a masochist volunteering to pay money...
...parochial. Others were seen to lack sufficient experience commanding troops in the field. None had "the Ralston problem," a top Cohen aide said--"everyone knew he had to be clean on that score"--and any of them would have easily won Senate approval. But only Shelton had the real-world combat experience in a variety of hot spots that Cohen wanted. So only Shelton was called back for a second meeting with Cohen last Wednesday--this time with no aides present...
...attack had nothing to do with Harvard," Oppenheimer says. "We used [our access to Mansfield] to stage a real-world counter-attack against things Mansfield did--also in the real world--to hurt our communities...
...this sense, the real-world competition is rarely human vs. machine, as it was with Kasparov. It's one kind of tool vs. another kind of tool.Thus the steam drill wasn't really challenging John Henry; it was challenging his sledgehammer. It's the guy using the steam drill who was challenging John Henry. Similarly, the bank teller's competitor is not so much the atm as the people who design the machine or those who build it or service it. Functionally speaking, they're just bank tellers using new tools. And that's all the old bank teller really...
Equally important, CITE interns study specific theories of learning, behavior and classroom management while testing them in real-world situations. In the typical teachers' college, such subjects are taught as large lecture classes in the first or second year...