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...onslaught comes despite the fact that an exhaustive review by the nation's top homework scholar, Duke University's Harris Cooper, concluded that homework does not measurably improve academic achievement for kids in grade school. That's right: all the sweat and tears do not make Johnny a better reader or mathematician...
...with Janus' release of a dozen or so Bergman movies, particularly this medieval epic about a knight playing chess with Death during the plague years. As gaunt, handsome and stern as the face of its star, Max von Sydow, The Seventh Seal comes with an illuminating commentary by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie and a nifty short about the process of restoring the film...
...that allowed police to lock people up just for traveling outside their registered hometowns. The following year, he won a seat in his district government in Beijing, in one of the few openly contested elections in the country. In addition to teaching constitutional law, he has been a visiting scholar at Yale, and a defender of peasants on death row. Last year, Xu spent time living in a shantytown on the outskirts of Beijing, conducting first-hand research on its residents, people for whom justice has been so elusive they've come to the capital to plead for help from...
...wallet, according to his friend and fellow lawyer, Teng Biao - Chen sat through a trial on charges that could earn him five years in jail. According to another of his lawyers, who had spoken to Chen's brother, Chen vomited during the trial. It was, wrote longtime China law scholar Jerome Cohen, in an e-mail sent to reporters, an "understandable and appropriate" response to "the nauseating nature of the unfair sanctions that have been imposed on him and his family for over a year...
...Still, the Angelides strategy - particularly the tax cut plan - has energized his campaign for the moment, and might help to inoculate the Democrat somewhat from Republican attacks that he's a tax-and-spend liberal, says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, political analyst and senior scholar at USC, who was at the back of the room listening to his remarks. Additionally, she said, "Angelides now seems to have a message and a focus that could force the Governor to narrow his message in a way that disturbs his carefully constructed coalition [of disparate independents and mainstream GOP voters]. If that happens, this...