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...they got a tip early this year that secret papers were in the boxes. They say the tip was confirmed when Mark Feldstein, a G.W.U. professor writing an Anderson biography, told agents that "he has seen what he believed to be classified documents," says Joseph Persichini, head of the FBI's Washington field office. Feldstein denies that, saying he instead told the agents that he recalled seeing no plainly classified material among the yellowed pages, stained by rusty paper clips. "I was disappointed that there weren't any smoking-gun secret documents," says Feldstein. The lone once classified document...
...aware and interact with art and politics in a unique way. He says, “I engage with history, with memory; I hover between two places, which is a way of forming insight.” Whether explaining the long-term use of Robin Island on the tip of Southern Africa as a place where “people who were considered outsiders, whether lepers or political prisoners, were kept” or evoking complex South African language politics through a piece about fig trees, Stopforth’s remarkable skill as storyteller, political actor, and artist shines throughout...
...enter economic, social, and civic life. After a 2006 study by the American Institutes for Research found that more than 50 percent of students at four-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex “literacy” tasks like analyzing news articles or calculating a tip at a restaurant, the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education (COFHE) actually recommended mandatory standardized testing for college students to ensure they were graduating with the appropriate skills...
With due respect to the folks over at COFHE, they’ve got it all wrong. The “literacy” with which they are concerned is inarguably essential, but incorrectly assigned. That 50 percent of four-year graduates are unable to calculate a tip is inexcusable, but rather than blame it on the fact they avoid math classes in college, why not ask how they passed high school not knowing how to take 15 percent. Standardized tests in secondary schools are intended to ensure that students are equipped with the necessary tools to succeed in college...
That, combined with some of the smaller touches—the frumpiness of Joan, the clumsy way in which she climbs down off of the big red bus, the faces and gestures the men make when they tip their beers—make watching the movie into a little trip to Britain...