Word: seventh
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...unprintable -- names for the small windowless cell. Though the prison bars are just painted on the cinder-block entrance, the punishment is real. Delinquent students must remain in the room -- absolutely quiet -- all day, even eating at their desks. "It's so hot and so boring," moans a seventh grader named Lance, 12, serving day two of a three-day sentence for tardiness. His pencil is worn to the nub from writing "I will follow school rules" 200 times. (The record is 500.) "This place is just terrible...
...discipline quotas. "It will have a chilling effect," predicts Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers. "Basically, teachers will throw in the towel and say, 'Why should I get into trouble?' " He compares the proposal to requiring police to make racially balanced arrests. Kathy Nemann, a seventh-grade history teacher at Crest Hills Middle School in north Cincinnati, agrees. "Teachers will simply stop referring students for discipline," she says. "They'll handle the problem in the classroom"-at the expense of all students. Donald Mooney Jr., attorney for the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, says, "Whether you call...
...plot synopsis in the notes for the retrospective concludes with the sentence, "Film ends as Jof, Mia and their child walk off towards a new day." That is as cliched a sentence as one can find, but the ending of "The Seventh Seal" is far from cliched. Just as the ending of "Smiles of a Summer Night" was in many rspects a false ending belied by the content of the film, the optimistic ending of "The Seventh Seal" is ironical. Mia and Jof walking into the sunrise cannot erase the previous images; Death will come for them...
...anyone uncaquainted with Bergman's work, "Smiles of a Summer Night" and, "The Seventh Seal" make excellent introductions. For those already familiar with Bergmar, the retrospective at the Harvard Film Arc provides an opportunity to rediscer Bergman's greatness. The retrospective continues with "Wild Strawberris," Persona," "Cries and Whispers" and "Fanny and Alexander...
Last spring the lightweight four stormed through the season with an undefeated record, a first-place Eastern sprints finish and a national championship. Although the heavyweight eight, Radcliffe's first-priority boat, struggled to a seventh-place finish at Eastern sprints, coach Liz O'Leary has confidence in her team...