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...Scott Thomas's work on which the success of the picture depends and she does not fail it. Indeed, she gives a truly great performance. It's never easy for an actor to sustain our sympathy when a role is grounded in radical passivity. But she conveys in I've Loved You So Long's opening sequences a sense that her silences are willed attempts to protect herself from her own guilt at the crime - I don't think it spoils anything to identify it as a mercy killing - for which she has paid her debt. She is not quite...
...injustice to rights. It is more profoundly about Juliette coming to grips with herself, freeing herself from her own guilty questions about her past behavior. What she has to learn is that she has been given a second chance and must accept it. It is a privilege to watch Scott Thomas work that out, subtly and realistically, in a film that remains stubbornly true to the modest presentation of psychological issues that are deeper and more potentially melodramatic than it ever overtly allows them to be. It is this discipline that frees I've Loved You So Long from...
...Even so, Scott says he is intrigued by ReadiStep and will consider using it, adding, "If it is a formative assessment that can tell us exactly how to prepare kids better for college, then it could be a good addition...
Obama, Barack •encouraging poll results for •endorsement by Scott McClellan and others of •"rhetorical flourishes" of running mate are noted...
...Moreover, federal No Child Left Behind mandates already require that students from grades three through eight be tested every year. "We don't need another standardized test for testing's sake," says Irvin Scott, high school academic superintendent for Boston Public Schools...