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...student selects his or her best work during an entire year of study, and at term's end explains the choices. The portfolio approach places emphasis on overall accomplishment rather than ability to conquer a battery of tests. And students learn the virtues of improvement as they revise and embellish drafts of their work, as opposed to the cycle of cramming and forgetting that can accompany an exam regimen...
...lavishly, unrelentingly negative that it has set off a pair of fierce debates. The first centers on the former First Lady herself. Criticizing Nancy Reagan -- a First Lady America never really warmed to -- has become something of a cottage industry, and many of Kelley's charges merely reinforce and embellish those in earlier memoirs such as For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington by former White House chief of staff Donald Regan. "Had people liked Nancy Reagan in the first place they wouldn't be susceptible to all this dirt," says James Rosebush, the First Lady's former chief...
Rossi has a reputation, not altogether undeserved, for rueful, chilly buildings. Until the past decade, he was widely known for a cemetery in Modena, Italy, that was started in 1971. The complex is dignified, with utterly no attempt to prettify or embellish. One of its main features, a 2,625-ft.-long, colonnaded, concrete arcade, achieves serenity by way of severity. His 1976 school in the town of Fagnano was a similarly stripped-down collection of elemental components. Yet, as if to confound those who would pigeonhole him as a weltschmerzy ascetic, Rossi took the opposite tack for a family...
Ordinarily, children use play to make sense of what they see and hear around them. In playing house, they copy their parents' patterns but invent a dizzying array of plots and a surprising cast of characters to embellish the scene. When children imitate what they see on TV, however, they do not sift the play through their own experience. "The boys end up imitating violence they don't even understand," says co-author Levin, an associate professor of education at Boston's Wheelock College...
...member of Nielsen's Top Ten. The show's premise is shamelessly simple. Viewers send in funny clips they have shot with their camcorders -- everything from cute baby antics to homemade music videos. The producers sift through the best stuff, organize it around loose themes (sports, animals, weddings) and embellish it with sound effects and wisecracks from host Bob Saget...