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...role as mayor of Ember City. Also frustrating is the film’s lack of a believable backstory; integral information is incessantly missing from the plot. What happened to the world last time? What made it fail? So many questions go unanswered that it can at times be somewhat tiresome. Even so, the movie does address certain concerns that mirror issues of the world today—one such concern being what the government is really doing and what information they are withholding. Another strength of the movie is composer Andrew Lockington’s original score. His fast...
...when productivity growth rebounded, from about 1.5% a year to more than 2.5%. The engine apparently was the rise of the computer and the Internet. And the boom continued even after the technology bust of 2001. In 2006-07, productivity growth slumped to pre-1995 levels, before rebounding somewhat in the first half of this year. But year-to-year numbers can be confusingly noisy; it's the trend that matters. Gordon, who doesn't buy that computers and the Internet are nearly as economically significant as cars, electricity and their ilk, thinks we're headed back toward...
...semester’s grades may not be out just yet, but for our nation’s public schools, report cards are looking somewhat dismal. This year, according to newly released state-by-state data, the number of schools failing to reach testing targets under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was far greater than in any other year. Indeed, children are getting left behind, but not because they’re slow. It’s because the NCLB school bus is trying to go 70 miles per hour in the suburbs. The original NCLB legislation had the lofty...
...sense the palpable presence of Vergil. To disembody literature from the larger tradition of which the authors were knowingly partaking would appear an artificial and arbitrary extraction.Most importantly, perhaps, we owe our understanding of philosophy to the Greeks who developed it and the Latins who preserved it for us somewhat intact. The metaphysics and natural science first discoursed upon in Plato’s Academy and Aristotles’s Lyceum laid the basis for modern rational thought and technological progress. These philosophers also first presented to us the problem of politics as we know it. “What...
Berlusconi's failed reelection bid in 2006 meant a two-year parenthesis of somewhat cooler Washington-Rome relations, as center-left Prime Minister Romano Prodi, an opponent of Bush's Iraq policy, came to power in Italy. By the time Prodi's government collapsed and Berlusconi returned to power last spring, Bush was already registering dismal approval ratings, and heading toward the lower rungs in the historians' presidential ratings game...