Word: shame
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Fred W. Friendly, the esteemed former CBS News president who collaborated with Edward R. Murrow on some of TV's most groundbreaking documentaries, died Tuesday in New York after a series of strokes. He was 82. Friendly was the behind-the-scenes force on such documentaries as "Harvest of Shame" in 1961, about migrant farm workers, and the Murrow "See It Now" report that hastened the downfall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. "He was my No. 1 cheerleader back to legitimacy," Geraldo Rivera, who was a student of Friendly's at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, told the Associated...
...replace it with a one-year long English immersion program. The initiative is an attempt to deal with a monolithic educational system that is not sufficiently servicing the limited English proficient (LEP) students it claims to help. (The program at present is so convoluted, it puts the Core to shame.) Unfortunately, the proposed alternative is no less monolithic and carries with it undertones of racism and anti-immigrant bias to boot. Although it is clear that the existing system is misguided and badly applied, that Proposition 227 is seen as the best alternative is testimony to the utter disappointment parents...
...most rousing moment came when the U.S. women's hockey team beat four-time world champion Canada, 3-1, to take an emotional gold. The two games between the fierce enemies introduced fans to a style of fluency and electrifying intensity that put many an NHL game to shame, as well as to such new words as "underwomanned." Though body checking is not allowed in women's hockey, it would have been hard to tell that to any of the bodies flying across the ice, while Maple Leafs clashed with Stars and Stripes all around the packed arena...
...generated gyrations of a state-of-the-art motion simulator with the immersive wide-screen splendor of an IMAX film. For $9.50, racers wearing 3-D headsets are enveloped in fog and 14,000 watts of digital sound for 6 min. of stomach-churning visceral reality that puts to shame its crosstown rival, Star Trek: The Experience. Even the gods would be impressed...
...There's not enough emphasis on theater at Harvard," Shinagel says. "It's a shame we don't have a drama wing of the the English department, a drama department, or that we don't do what Yale does and have a drama school...