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...Corps of Discovery,” Burns became familiar with the American landscape. “We were stunned by how few places we could go that did not have the hand of man on it.” So it seems natural that Burns came to turn what he calls his “energetic camera’s eye” onto the man who created the world’s first national park system. The project brought him to campus, home to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection in the Harvard College Library, which is now holding an exhibit...
...time to insist on a reactionary return to a pedagogy that permits only dry book learning. (If anything, the students themselves would not tolerate such a regression.) And as an industry builds around the quest to glue young people to their TV screen, the least we can do is turn a dubious development in a more unambiguously positive direction. The educational games and interactive novels described in the Times report pass the Hippocratic test of viability as teaching tools: They, evidently, do no harm. But almost as important as a teaching model that successfully engages with children learning to read...
...chief reasons why the United States should give more now are not altruistic. By leading the charge for the MDP, the U.S. can regain political credibility and simultaneously cultivate a global economic order better able to promote stable growth. An inward turn now, as the world gears up for collaborative action, would be foolish...
...mental instability. The simplicity of expression reflects an equal simplicity of character. Pat’s dominating outlook on life is that there is a silver lining to everything—a cliché remark that recurs throughout the entire novel. He expects his life to turn out like a movie with a happy ending and is enraged by anything that threatens to prevent this from happening. The happy ending that Pat anticipates is his reuniting with his ex-wife Nikki, although how their relationship ended in the first place remains in the blurry past before his confinement...
...film begins straightforwardly. The opening scenes recount the effects of the “Swift Boat” attacks on Democrat John Kerry’s campaign. Ominous music plays as the words, “This is the story of one filmmaker’s failed attempt to turn things around” appear onscreen. Yet the documentary loses direction with startling celerity. Gone is the Michael Moore who sharply analyzed America’s gun culture in 2002’s “Bowling for Columbine.” In his stead is a veritable egomaniac, feeding...