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...also served as a teacher for the Civics program, a joint IOP and PBH program that allows Harvard students to teach elementary school children about politics and the media. Earlier this year, the Michigan native was also awarded a Truman scholarship...
...Along similar lines, Bush was also asked what books he has read recently. He mentioned a book about Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman, and said he likes mysteries...
...begins by painting an idyll: of Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse who works in her hospital's organ-transplant unit, and her darling son Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Manuela is the mom every gay, or simply sensitive, son would adore. She watches All About Eve with him, gives him a Truman Capote book for his birthday, takes him to a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He is a sweet, giving lad with a lot of promise. Almodovar is careful and caring in setting up this lovely couple--one could build a fine movie around them--and then he is ruthless...
...rules surrounding gay sexuality on TV. The first strange rule: gay men are more lovable than gay women. But girl kisses are better than boy kisses--and it's best if at least one girl is straight. Straight actors playing gay (as in Eric McCormack, who plays lawyer Will Truman) go over better than openly gay actors (DeGeneres), and so on. Thus America is apparently ready for implicit fellatio as a punch line or for a foxy hetero babe's experimentation, while actual gay characters such as Will--though enjoying increasingly substantial roles--still have libido restrictions...
...blackboard, Cady divides four-year colleges into three groups: competitive colleges, including those in the Ivy League; less competitive ones, among which he includes the private, local St. Louis and Washington universities; and state universities, such as Missouri and Truman State. "You need to have a conversation with your parents about what you can afford," Cady tells them. So, next to his competitive and less competitive lists, he writes $30,000. "And this would be just for tuition." Next to Truman State, he writes $8,000 and calls it "the best value in Missouri." At Truman, he adds...