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...often called the Scottish Eton. A lot of institutions that used to symbolize and perpetuate inequality in Britain seem to have lost their toxic punch; the royal family, for example, has never been more popular. What about Eton? What lessons is it imparting today, to what kind of boy? Is it manufacturing smug toffs, or are its students being equipped to make an honest living in a more classless, complex world? A visitor to the school is struck by Eton's pungent combination of beauty and history that makes it seem, though it's in the middle of a small...
...course this breeds insularity and exclusivity; the upside is intensity. Classes are small, teaching is often passionate, the boys work hard - 97 out of a class of 263 were offered places at Oxford or Cambridge last year, and 110 are studying Chinese. By custom, to show the respect they want the boys to give it, teachers must mark written work within 24 hours. They're given a lot of latitude on how to teach and are well paid - two-thirds earn over $72,000, plus housing - but they're also expected to coach athletic teams and help with extracurricular activities...
...hothouse, less self-involved and all-consuming. "You hear about weird stuff like [what happened to Fraser] from a long time ago, but I never heard anything like that happening when I was there," says a student who finished in 2004. The practice of "fagging," where younger boys acted as servants to older ones, ended in 1980; now two incidents of bullying a younger boy can result in expulsion. Corporal punishment is banned. The boys are allowed out more on weekends. A Muslim tutor was recently appointed. The role of women is still peculiar: with the exception of teachers' wives...
Jewaun Smith, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, is lucky to be alive. A scrape on his left knee that he picked up riding his bike last October turned into a runaway infection that spread in a matter of days through the rest of his body, leaving his lungs riddled with holes. Jewaun managed to survive, but what worries doctors most about his near-death experience is that it's not an isolated case. The bacteria that infected his knee has become resistant to the most common antibiotics and is on the march across the U.S. It has spread...
...wait a minute! Is it really so illogical for a nice Palestinian boy to fall in love with an equally agreeable Jewish girl? It must happen from time to time in the real world. Or perhaps we should say it ought to happen or we are all lost to unending stupidity. Only Human, in its deliriously goofy way, lives up to its title, implying that human beings sometimes have no choice but to follow the dictates of their yearning souls, no matter what the fanatics may be muttering outside the camera's range. The movie does not make...