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...best case scenario, English learners in Structural English Immersion classes are making progress in closing the achievement gap,” said Patricia Gandara, a professor at University of California, Davis...
Take a few numbers from the export column and a few statistics from the retail sales column, put them together, and presto! You've got yourself an economic recovery in long-suffering Japan. At least that's the rosy scenario painted by government leaders desperate to shore up their sagging popularity. The trouble is that to Japanese, the calculations look suspiciously like voodoo economics. "If the economy is getting better, we sure don't feel it," says 59-year-old Kinuyo Otsu while passing a Christian Dior shop in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. "Our husbands' jobs aren't stable enough...
...style is as hyper as the coked-up kids, but City of God manages to hold dozens of horrifying stories in some kind of coherence with its unflinching powers of observation. Another cautionary teen tale, Sweet Sixteen, directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty (winner of Cannes' Scenario prize), is distinguished by its clear-eyed sympathy for a bright kid who thinks he can win his mum's love only by dealing drugs. The Scottish star, non-actor Martin Compston, 17, is marvelous - a screen natural. A few works offered blessed escape. Escape into musical rapture: the Bollywood...
...President and his cabinet pay attention to him? Good to have Morgan Freeman as an amusingly bemused CIA chief and mentor to Ryan, intrigued by the latter's complicated, even humane, analysis of the intelligence data but never quite certain it should override the simpler Us vs. Them scenario the President's men prefer. Good. perhaps, to have Neo-Nazis as the bad guys; they have no offendable constituency...
...only to pretend that this may be a "controversial" movie, worrisome to a jittery America. Can we live with its doomsday scenario? Of course we can. And hum a few bars of "Seems Like Old Times" while we're at it. There are murkier, scarier matters to bring to light - intelligently, we may hope and pray...