Word: teachers
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...Philadelphia high school, science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is yanked out of class to be told, along with the other teachers, about the events in New York City. No one's certain if it's a terrorist attack or a random quirk of nature, but "some kind of airborne chemical toxin" is spreading across the Northeast that's making people kill themselves. The pupils are sent home, and Elliot decides that he, his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) and his math-teacher buddy (John Leguizamo) will get out of town. The movie is the story of their flight...
...Eventually, Elliot and Alma form a kind of family with the math teacher's daughter, but that hasn't nearly the dramatic heft needed to fill in the cracks around the disintegrating main story. What you get is a lot of impotent anger, people walking into harm's way and the sniper-like picking off of supporting players - all the dumbest tropes of horror movies, without the robust scares a good thrill-fest delivers. It's a sorry enough spectacle to make admirers of The Sixth Sense wonder if they didn't overrate that movie, and the director's whole...
...wagon to the ceremony. In a crowded courtyard, the greatest fighters of their time, the Furious Five - the Crane (David Cross), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Tigress (Angelina Jolie) and Monkey (Jackie Chan) - are showily displaying the fabulous skills they have honed under the stern eye of their teacher Shifu (Dustin Hoffman). Then, through plot contortions even more acrobatic than anything the Furious Five have demonstrated, Po is declared the new kung fu hero. Shifu is aghast: this clown can't be taught anything. Yet Oggway believes that the accident that dropped...
...None of this means that I’ve given up on difficult endeavors. Within a week of the publication of this article, I’ll drive to Louisiana to join Teach for America as a high school English teacher in the New Orleans public school system. I am certain that my job will pose an almost infinite number of challenges and require a fair amount of determination. But now that I’ve discarded perseverance as an ideology—sticking it out for the sake of sticking it out—I can see the deeper...
...entire Northeast. This year, Harvard achieved both, finishing the season as the top team in the region and placing 18th in the NCAA Central Regional Championship in the heat of Austin, Tex., after reaching 15th place at one point during the final round. Rhoads is a full-time teacher of the game, not just a college coach, and was recognized for his outstanding work by being named 2008 New England PGA Teacher of the Year. That award runs in the family—Rhoads’ father, Rick, won the award twice in California. “He spends countless...