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...building. It has 270 students, grades 1 through 6, six teachers, two of them women. A third of the students are girls. There have been threats against them that they should not go to school. But nevertheless they go. There is such a hunger, a craving for education, for self-improvement, for enlightenment. I have school-aged children of my own and to see them every morning kind of groaning about having to go to school, the irony hits you pretty hard...
...divided, largely on the side of being supportive. Not always agreeing with everything that I've said, but being glad that these issues are being discussed, that Afghanistan is being discussed. Also there is, I think, a sense of nationalistic pride. It's kind of a boost to their self-esteem as it were. But there are always people who disagree, and in my estimation there is a minority - I could be wrong - of people in that community who feel that my books are divisive, that they talk about things that ought to be kept private within the family...
...Frank Langella would be proud of such a performance. But this display of mood-altering confession and self-justification was the real Nixon, in his TV marathon with Frost in 1977, three years after he left the White House in disgrace. That four-part joust, still the highest-rated interview show in U.S. history, was the inspiration for Peter Morgan's London and Broadway play starring Langella as Nixon and Michael Sheen as Frost. Langella and Sheen (and Morgan) repeat their roles in the Ron Howard movie version opening today. Both the movie and the interviews (now available...
Cyberchondriac n.--Someone who needlessly fears the worst after using the Internet to self-diagnose an ailment...
...Sunstein said. “We can see that in the Internet era in particular, false rumors are not only a source for many people— anonymous and less so—of unjustified injury and cruelty, but also pose serious problems for economic prosperity and democratic self-government as well.” Sunstein described the specific social and psychological tendencies to believe rumors that could affect the press and the spread of information. He began with an investigation of the social and psychological factors that prompt individuals to engage in the spread of rumors...