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This tale of a small-town high school teacher (Kevin Kline) whose life turns upside down when he's declared gay by a former student-turned-movie star (Matt Dillon) marks Hollywood's own comingout party. No wonder then that it's a bland comedy that ends up reinforcing, not puncturing, gay stereotypes, and squanders a fine comic cast. Kline manages to rise above the plodding humor, especially in his show-stopping dance scenes, and Selleck is terrific as the sleazy, faintly Mephistophelean tabloid reporter who dogs his footsteps...
Gregory Cajete, professor of Education at the University of New Mexico, spoke yesterday evening before an audience of approximately 50 people at the Harvard Education Forum about an educational philosophy he bases on his experience as a teacher of indigenous peoples...
...affirmative-action case of the moment is Piscataway v. Taxman, now before the Supreme Court. White teacher Sharon Taxman claims her school board violated her rights when it made a racially based decision to lay her off rather than an equally qualified black colleague. While Piscataway is important, and will doubtless reveal a lot about the Supreme Court's thinking about the constitutional limits on racial preferences, the court's decision is likely to be limited to the narrow context of layoffs. If the Michigan case reaches the high court--and many conservatives are betting it will--it could result...
...with listing-board bookcases and taped posters, and rendezvous with the one--or the second or the third--who was about to get away. Now, rather suddenly, this generation dreams of Pottery Barn, slipcovered sofas and tuna-noodle surprise. "I read cookbooks," admits Angela Lee, 27, a New York teacher. "And my last five social occasions? I cooked and friends came over...
...months ago, Lee quit, and in the space of 24 hours went from corporate hotshot to math teacher on Manhattan's Lower East Side. She and her fiance Jason, 25, nest through weekends; a hot outing is likely to be a visit to a coffee bar with friends. This whole nesting thing, she says, "is about a simple question--What do I do that would make me happy?" She pauses as the sounds of ringing bells and laughing children rise. "I'm choosing a destination, and maybe it means I'll have fewer choices," she says. "But I think...