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...galloping that helps Equus rise above its didactic moments. The play's conceit is to have actors playing the horses -wearing wire masks and rising majestically on similarly constructed hoof-like platform shoes. The dance-like performances (under Thea Sharrock's solid, no-nonsense direction) are both realistic and exotic, evoking the otherworldly power of the boy's obsession. The play's glibness melts before its arresting images; the climactic re-creation of the crime is a stunning coup-de-theater. This Equus is not a bad graduation present for Harry Potter - or for his grown-up audiences...
...pineal gland at the base of the brain. As nighttime approaches and daylight recedes, the pineal gland produces melatonin, a chemical that signals the body to begin shutting down for sleep. Studies by Mary Carskadon at Brown University have shown that it takes longer for melatonin levels to rise in teenagers than in younger kids or in adults, regardless of exposure to light or stimulating activities. "The brain's program for starting nighttime is later," she explains...
...chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them—and then, the opportunity to choose.”Fifty years ago, C. Wright Mills, the intellectual rebel and prominent sociologist, uttered these words during a period of American history in which bureaucratization was on the rise and, as a result, imagination was quickly disappearing. Mills worried that Americans, increasingly unable to cultivate themselves, were morphing into passive receptacles filled by the social norms and mores of their time. In “The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach...
...what has been a very long process and one that will extend over the next several decades,” he said. While recognizing that this is an important step, Clark emphasized that more needs to be done to formulate a multifaceted plan. “Harvard needs to rise to other challenges,” he said, including its water use, and the carbon emissions generated by Harvard’s energy production. But for now, the symbolic role of Gore’s presence may be sufficient. “Symbols are important,” Shrag said...
...Less Safe,” by Huffington Post editor Arianna Huffington.It’s a form of political intellectual masturbation, a primal scream meant to release the pent-up frustrations of the supposedly civilized Beltway society. Like all fetishes, it has its origins in some formative event: the rise and fall of Clintonian politics.In 1992, a newly aggressive stance in Democratic campaigning made the party’s future seem rosy. Bill Clinton’s electoral victory had begun to transcend the political map of the post-Civil Rights South. After 12 years of Republican rule and alongside...