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...third parties. However, we all have to grow up sometime, and I would have more sympathy for Viswanathan if she had accepted responsibility for her actions or shown the slightest bit of remorse. She has done neither, and unless she stops and acknowledges that she has learned her lesson, she is in danger of repeating this type of behavior over the course of her life...
...Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.Akeelah (Keke Palmer, “Madea’s Family Reunion”), an underprivileged girl from the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles, takes on the prestigious spelling bee. Through her training, she learns more than just etymology—she receives an invaluable lesson about motivation, balancing proper English and slang, and even pre-pubescent love.Director Doug Atchison certainly had to go to great lengths to get this inspirational drama released. Surprisingly, Starbucks Entertainment, a subsidiary of the well-known coffee chain, is a major driving force behind the movie. As a consequence, you?...
Currently listed as a bestseller on many charts, “Templar” is certainly latching onto the star power of Dan Brown’s clue-filled Christian history—or, at least, pseudo-history—lesson...
...previous goal in life was to earn lots of money," says Zhou Jun, a Shanghai entrepreneur who runs a solar-heating company and converted to Tibetan Buddhism in 2004. "But now after studying Buddhism, I realize there is much more to life, and I want to share that lesson with everyone." Zhou now donates a chunk of his earnings to build new Tibetan Buddhist temples in western China, and has imparted the Buddha's teachings to his business partners. Tempering a capitalist impulse with a quest for inner peace jibes with the Chinese government's own shift from a development...
That was an extreme lesson in the value of experience; no one recommends seeking out doctors who are brand new on the job, and doctors admit to scheduling elective surgery--even planning childbirth--around the intern calendar. This is not paranoia: the average major teaching hospital typically sees a 4% jump in its risk-adjusted mortality rate in the summer, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. But there is a larger issue that doctors argue about: which matters more, information or experience? Broadly speaking, a younger doctor is likely to have been trained in the newest surgical procedures...