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...principal predictor of pupil performance. If the child does not learn, say the educators, then it is not the fault of the school. I do not think it is possible for poor people to change in the way the schools want them to," Edmonds theorizes. "To feed, clothe, sustain a child in conformity to the stereotype middle-class expectations takes more money than most poor people can hope to have. Clearly we arrive at an impasse, given the economic and political reality in this country...
...Niger cost him all his cattle and camels and a third of his family. Now he is destitute, living in a stark hut made oi hides The Niger Red Cross manages to provide him with 150 grams of food per day, which, according to U.N. officials, can only sustain life for a short time...
Director Roeg, formerly a cameraman (Petulia) has made two previous films: Performance, which he co-directed, and Walkabout. Both had a disquieting beauty, a dreamlike sense of dislocation and, most of all, a reliance on the visual vocabulary of the cinema to build and sustain the narrative. Don't Look Now is Roeg's best work so far -the most deliberate and contained. Much of the movie's power comes from images that carry a kind of glancing, indefinable threat and remain in some dark corner of the imagination. They are immediate but not quite real, like...
Some of the Watergate myths have already been dispelled. For example, no amount of invective or evasion from Ron Ziegler could continue to sustain the claim that Watergate was a "caper" pulled off by seven crazies out on tout who just happened to be employees of the CREEP. That myth is now as "inoperative" as Mr. Ziegler. Yet most of the Watergate mythology remains and much of it is widely believed...
They cannot prove any of that--for if they could, in their desperation they would already have done so. Indeed, despite a massive investigative effort, they have not been able to sustain a single charge against the McGovern campaign, and only minor charges against other candidates last year. But it should not surprise us that the same Nixon who advanced his career by smearing each of his opponents now seeks to save his presidency by smearing the entire political system...