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...says Mallory R. Hellman ’08 of writing workshops. According to Hellman, creative writing workshops differ greatly from other courses because of the stressful peer review process. In most workshops, participants critique one student’s work as the author remains silent. The experience isn’t usually pleasant. Hellman recalls an incident in a screen-writing course when she presented an autobiographical piece about a traumatic experience as if it were fiction. “I wanted to get honest feedback,” she says. As a result, her peers extensively criticized the main...
...salute many forms of service but we’re often silent in thanking those who serve in military uniform because the war is so controversial,” he said...
...probably see an initial bump in military spending in an Obama Administration" in order to add troops and replace the equipment lost in Iraq. Then he told a teachers' union member that he supported higher pay for teachers but also--the union's anathema--greater accountability. The crowd was silent as he said these things. But there are different sorts of silence, and in this case, they were hanging on his every word...
...place for political debates. "We don't want a zealot in there," she says. "We want someone who's going in there with a heart and compassion who'll talk reasonably and present the options." And, she adds, she would never, ever show graphic pictures or movies like The Silent Scream, the landmark 1984 video that presents an abortion being performed in which the fetus is portrayed as crying in pain. The women who come through her door, Wood says, "are traumatized enough already. Why would we do that? We're trying to be caretakers. I know...
...agreement is also silent on the subject of the nuclear weapons the North already has. The existence of that arsenal was confirmed last October, when the North said it had tested a nuclear weapon (albeit with mixed success). The fact that Kim's stockpile is not mentioned in the latest agreement "is probably not an oversight," says Gary Samore, who was head of the counterproliferation program at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) under Clinton. "That's an indication that the North Koreans are not going to be willing to give up their existing capabilities...