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Howard Gardner, along with other education gurus, deserves a large amount of the blame for the low achievement of public school students. Teachers take a shred of truth--in Gardner's case, that students have different aptitudes and learning styles--and manipulate it into the absurd, so that students build boats instead of reading and writing about European settlers. These education theorists have replaced knowledge with process, phonics with whole language, merit with relevance and rigor with self-esteem. As a teacher who plans to retire soon, I shudder to think what the future holds for our youth if these...
...Vampires never quite reaches the level of ingenious nonsense as, say, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, its clever blend of Dracula and The Wild Bunch makes for an embarrassingly fun ride. Much like the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez vampire spaghetti western From Dusk Till Dawn, Vampires doesn't have a shred of seriousness to it. Which is more credible--the sight of Daniel Baldwin cauterizing a wound with the barrel of a freshly shot machine gun or James Woods trying to stuff a dozen decapitated heads into a pillowcase...
...garbage bag outside an apartment complex where her family had once lived. Inconveniently, a witness at that apartment complex had glanced out a window and seen Tawana furtively installing herself in the garbage bag. And a grand jury, after a long, hard look, concluded that there was not a shred of evidence from the real world that the story was true...
...Fortune" viewer, but beyond the book’s grand foray into consciousness lies a simple admonition: redundancy hurts, for less is much, much more. Do not say more than necessary; do not toss superfluous words into written communication, and, if you are a game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders' advice, upon distillation, condenses into pure common sense...
...this much straight: the King family has offered not a shred of credible evidence to support their charges of a wide-ranging government conspiracy. Absolutely none. What they serve up instead is a murky brew of truths, quarter-truths and outright lies assembled by the latest in a long string of Ray defense lawyers: one William Pepper, who is either a credulous buffoon or a con artist. To promote himself and his book on the alleged conspiracy, Pepper has exploited the King family's understandable desire to learn the full truth. Pepper's de facto accomplice is Phillip Jones...