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...Adam Sandler. Look for it soon...Fargo and The Shawshank Redemption are my two all-time favorite movies. So you can imagine that I'm not a particularly big fan of the Oscars since they ignore brilliant movies like these in favor of drivel like Forrest Gump and The English Patient. But I actually feel bad for the Academy this year-what in the world can voters look forward to? There's no good movies on the horizon... I hate getting political, but the election is too close to call and I'm losing my temper. Instead of launching into...
...Bagger Vance, the latest directorial effort from Academy Award-winner Robert Redford. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, it's the mystical story of a golfer in search of his swing and his soul, and the caddy who helps light the way. It doesn't take an English concentrator to find the metaphor in that. Of course, the trouble with metaphors is that you can only take them so far. After all, not everybody plays golf (in fact, most people probably couldn't tell you the difference between a birdie and a bogie); and in real life, none...
...numbered scenes in Arcadia are set at an English country manor in the early nineteenth century. The even-numbered scenes take place in the present at the same estate, Sidley Park, where bickering historians attempt to reconstruct the story of what happened in the other scenes. Arcadia is an extended rumination on love, sex, history and entropy that revolves around discussions of Fermat's Last Theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, Byron's poetry and the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism in England. That Arcadia is not exactly an accessible work did not bother the audience...
...with the task of flying the Soyuz capsule refused to serve with Shepherd, whom he considered a rookie. Shepherd's authority was further undermined by Russian ground controllers, who will call the shots until the U.S.-built laboratory module is in place next year. The international protocols called for English to be the language spoken by everyone on the mission, just as it is by commercial pilots and air-traffic controllers in most of the world. But the ground controllers in Korolyov, near Moscow, simply didn't know much English, so Russian will dominate the air-to-ground chatter...
First, it has discussed endorsing alternative graduation certificates for vocational students, special education students and students with limited English proficiency who do not pass the test. These certificates would be explicitly different from a high school diploma. Last year, 66 percent of tenth-graders with limited English proficiency failed the language section of the MCAS, and even more failed the math section. Students with disabilities scored lower on both sections. As the law currently stands, all students will be required to pass the test. While these certificates would be a positive first step, they would not affect the vast majority...