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...math. "You've got to start sometime saying to kids that the tests of the real world are going to flunk you anyway," says E.D. Hirsch Jr., author of Cultural Literacy. "Tough love is the right kind of fairness. And you have to change the system with shock treatment at some point...
...heart of the play is the sparring between Wilde (Michael Emerson) and his courtroom antagonists. The flip, willfully perverse Wildean wit suffered the rude shock of having to defend itself under pitiless legal questioning. Asked if something he has written is true, Wilde replies, "I rarely think anything I write is true." He was a victim, of course, of Victorian prudery but also of the perennial clash between the aesthetic and the moral, the realm of art and the realm of life. Wilde realizes too late that it's an unfair fight. "One says things flippantly," he apologizes wanly...
...ended the Braves' 1996 season, Jimmy Key. It was certainly a hit Thursday in Texas, where 46,507 showed up at The Ballpark to see history made. After notching the new era's first win, Giants pitcher Mark Gardner recalled a bit of AL culture shock. "They've got quite a lineup," he said. "I kept looking for the ninth hitter, the pitcher, and he never showed...
...Your decision to refuse Honig tenure has been greeted with shock and disbelief across the University and beyond," the letter said...
...come to meet Carnesale, bring a firm handshake and a healthy store of determination. A towering bear of a man, he greets you with a shock of anarchic white hair and a ruddy face with a stiffly mischievous grin. Unlike Rudenstine's office, which is a picture right out of a designer's catalogue, Carnesale's has a certain stoic feel to it, with no personal effects or complications in decor--bearing a striking resemblance to how he handles issues...