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...Amanda Ripley...
...fairway-are kind of cheesy. But that's a minor point. Who better to fill the classic "golden boy falls from grace" paradigm than Hollywood golden boy Matt Damon? He's already shown a knack for playing psychologically mucked-up characters in Good Will Hunting and The Talented Mr. Ripley, so the emotionally scarred Junuh isn't too much of a stretch. The character walks a fine line between brash confidence and paralyzing fear-and by making this confusion seem genuine, Damon succeeds in winning the audience's sympathy. What impresses me most about Damon, though, is his linguistic versatility...
...aggressively to recruit at minority high schools--and even to improve the performance of students who are graduating from them. This year the U.C. system will spend $250 million on outreach, from installing tutors at low-income schools to inviting high school teachers to summer calculus seminars. --By Amanda Ripley. Reported by Flora Tartakovsky/Houston and David Nordan/Atlanta
...Desa Philadelphia, a native of Guyana, taught English for a year before coming to TIME; her dad once served as a school headmaster, while her mom worked for the Ministry of Education. Desa writes this week's education news briefs, with help from writer Jodie Morse, writer-reporter Amanda Ripley and stringer Alice Jackson Baughn. The head reporter for the section is Victoria Rainert (who turned down a teaching job for journalism...
...sexiest presence in a movie last year? If you said Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley, you get to go to the next round. This time, Law is a vampirish Londoner feasting on the blood of the women he beds and kills. Now he wants to be human, although he realizes that falling in love means an end to his predatory life. From its first shot, of a mangled car high up in the branches of a tree, this cool, handsome thriller proceeds with an elliptical elegance. Leong is the compassionate surgeon operating on a disease called longing...