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...African-American students make strides academically, at a rate faster than their classmates in the regular classes. Furthermore, the country's largest group of linguists, the 6,000-member Linguistic Society of America, unanimously voted on Jan. 3 to support the use of Ebonics as a pedagogical tool because bridge programs, instead of creating some binary opposition, have actually been shown, from studies conducted in Sweden and this country, to accelerate the acquisition of what is considered the standard language. Thus, Ms. Barenbaum's assertion that Ebonics is going to further stratify lower-income blacks is simple hypothesizing with...
...eyes less keen than Lucas', the changes may appear to be more of a marketing tool than a genuinely significant embellishment of what was still a perfectly enjoyable film. Lucas now claims to be happy with "about 80%" of Star Wars--and annoyed with purists who resent his mucking about with a classic. After all, Star Wars is his movie. "The only thing I joke about now is it would be fun--and we can't do this for another 10 years or so--to go back and digitize the entire movie and clean it up. But that's such...
...administration's response to these charges generally has something to do with the Ad Board's role as an educational tool. According to this argument, the Board is not a court of law; its mission is to help and protect students. This counterclaim has a degree of merit. But there is a fundamental tension between the obligation of the College to protect students and the right of students to protect themselves...
...evidence of Metro, maybe The Nutty Professor was less a trend than a fluke. This cop thriller bears a surface similarity to the early Eddie hits 48 HRS. and Beverly Hills Cop, but it's lame and lazy, inefficient even as the sort of action machine Hollywood can tool up in its sleep. The mandatory car chase is woefully generic; it disregards the laws of physics without raising more than vagrant musings in the viewer. Why, for example, would a cable-car-ful of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with...
...city of Kragujevac, one of 14 cities won by opposition candidates, hundreds of police have blocked the transition by barricading themselves inside the city's TV station. By controlling the station, which the new mayor vows to liberate, Milosevic is effectively denying the opposition its most powerful tool...