Word: saner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final-draft writer) James Mangold has botched the job. It's just that he made something rather conventional out of a memoir that was spare, terse and elliptically funny. And naturally, the film's attitude toward its patients is the only acceptable one these days: that they may be saner than their keepers--especially since this is the '60s, when the outside world is so crazy...
...this continent? It has lost all its civility and is leaving behind a trail of brutality and sadness everywhere, be it Rwanda, Congo or Sierra Leone. I pray to God to bring back those days to Africa, which still has so much culture to share with this world. Let saner people look in and restore the continent. DEVINDER PUNJWARIA Toronto...
Teachers and counselors report that kids who are taught to hunt responsibly are generally among the more mature and better-mannered--and saner--adolescents in the wilds of modern American culture. Cesario Guerrero, an agricultural-science teacher, leads kids from tough neighborhoods in inner-city Houston on hunting trips for deer and wild hogs and observes that these students often "become part of a different crowd" when they return. "It gives them a pride...
...better at it; I figure one of these days, I'll set up shop in the Park Street T-stop and find myself swept along from Boston to the world. Ahh...sounds beautiful. And while people do tend to tell me that it sounds totally implausible (myself, in my saner moments, not least among them), I still find my thoughts wandering back to that little daydream...
...simplify the course selection process and to make shopping week saner for both students and professors, all course syllabi--whether for a potentially large Core or a limited-enrollment seminar--should be posted on the World Wide Web before shopping period begins. Students could thus refine their shopping lists before attending classes, and the great paper chase would come...