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...Import Export. Director Ulrich Seidl tells two unrelated stories - of Austrian men working in Ukraine, and of a young Ukrainian woman who comes to Austria - with the earthshaking message that men are bad and women put up with them. The guys spend their spare time degrading women they pick up in bars, making one strip, crawl on the floor and bark like a dog. Women pose naked before a camera, following the rude commands of Web cam masturbators. In a hospital for the aged, nurses perform perfunctory tasks for old droolers, whom Seidl photographs unpityingly. The humiliations - of the characters...
...Jesse grew determined to get involved as he mulled his future and the state of the world from his hometown of Aurora, Ill. He told his father that someone had to do something to stop al-Qaeda. Jesse was a gifted saxophone player, but he didn't want to spend his life playing in nightclubs...
...offset the time it takes to fill out evaluations, especially if a student may not reap the benefit of using the CUE guide to shop for classes in the future. The opportunity to see one’s grades early, however, would provide a far stronger incentive to spend a few minutes to evaluate a course. Nevertheless, the carrot must accompany the stick; CUE evaluations should be open to until a week or two after finals period. During reading and exam periods, most students would rather spend the hour or two it would take to fill out their CUEs studying...
...arrived in Cambridge on Thursday and was scheduled to spend Friday participating in what appeared to be a series of meetings related to her candidacy for one of Harvard’s most powerful posts...
...decline of science and social studies is often much steeper in schools struggling to end a record of failure. At Arizona Desert Elementary in San Luis, Ariz., students spend three hours of their 6 1/2-hr. day on literacy and 90 min. on arithmetic. Science is no longer taught as a stand-alone subject. "We had to find ways to embed it within the content of reading, writing and math," says principal Rafael Sanchez, with some regret. Social studies is handled the same way. The payoff for this laser-like attention to reading and math: the school went from failing...