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...Crimson granted anonymity to three members of the program because they said their jobs would be jeopardized if they spoke about Expos’s internal affairs...
...abstract...but its intention is reality,” he said. Movie-goers accustomed to detangling “complicated plots” and looking for “psychological information” would have difficulty with Guerín’s work. He reluctantly spoke with the audience but declined to comment extensively on the meaning of his films. Instead, he asks his audience to simply “watch [and] listen.” —Staff writer Alina Voronov can be reached at avoronov@fas.harvard.edu...
...immediately dialed Kearney and her husband's platoon sergeant, but they didn't answer. She reached a soldier at his barracks who promised to hunt him down. When Melissa hadn't heard anything by mid-afternoon, she called the barracks again and spoke to Sergeant Rory Martin, another outpatient. She asked him to check to see whether her husband had applied on Wednesday, as required, for his weekend pass. When they spoke again four hours later, Martin told Melissa that Cassidy had not applied for a weekend pass and that a knock on his door had gotten no response...
Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh spoke with Time's James Carney about the 2008 election. Look for the full interview at time.com/limbaugh...
Singapore, top-ranked in math by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, treats teaching similarly. When I visited Singapore's National Institute of Education, the nation's only teacher-training institution, nearly all the people I spoke with described how they were investing in teachers' abilities to teach a curriculum focused on critical thinking and inquiry--skills needed in a high-tech economy. To get the best teachers, the institute recruits students from the top third of each graduating high school class into a fully paid four-year teacher-education program (or, if they enter later...