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...that goes skittering through your brain and pretend that you're working, solemnly patrolling the cultural ramparts, looking for miscreants, saboteurs and other freebooters. Wait long enough and the movies will provide what some people like to call "guilty pleasures," but which are, for the critic, entirely guilt-free. Yes, sometimes it's a bummer - an Irish romance (Once) which looks as if the cameraman and the sound guy were both DUI, or the entire Wilson family (Luke, Owen and Andrew) seeking and finding near-total witlessness in The Wendell Baker Story. But still, there's something to be said...
...yes, many black students are angry. In light of the events this past weekend and the experiences that many of us have had in the past, this anger is definitely justified...
Pakistan's recent fever of violence, which included rioting that left 46 dead, may be forcing President Pervez Musharraf to relax his opposition to an old political rival before the country's long-awaited elections later this year. Yes, the riots ignited after Musharraf suspended the Supreme Court Chief Justice who would have ruled on any election irregularities. But the protests and reprisals have weakened Musharraf's standing enough that he may be looking to get a credibility boost by negotiating a power-sharing deal with exiled Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...
...books have yet to be published in his own country--few have the time and money to read novels, anyway--but he does get letters from Afghans. Most are proud of the world-famous writer their country has produced, but he gets some hate mail too. "They feel that yes, there are problems in Afghanistan, but do we really need to talk about these things? At this time?" There's probably a grain of truth there--there's something distinctively American and confessional about Hosseini's work. He shrugs. For the first time he sounds a little angry. "I guess...
Which is why it would be a shame if the McLean Committee for Student Rights succeeds in dismantling Turnitin. Yes, it is important to trust students. But an equally important lesson is that cheating shouldn't be rewarded. What's so terrible about making students think long and hard when an affordable term paper is just a click away...