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There is something to be said for having the courage to stand up and proclaim who you are. There is also something to be said for having the courage to stand up and proclaim who you were, and then reflect on who you are now. Hilborn's ability to completely reveal himself to us is a lesson in both. He is all at once the man he was and the man he ( Read more... )

As the end of the month approaches and school looms over me with it's schedules and it's conflicts and it's mountains of phone calls to make and thumb through, the heart of the work I do tends to drift away from me. I sit at my computer and reconfigure and redesign and try my best to place students where the work will resonate the most. But they ( Read more... )

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It was difficult, but this is most likely my favorite clip of Gorme ( Read more... )

I always wanted my students to be my friends. If my students liked me, the classroom was a safe place. If my students liked me, I was doing my job. I’ve worked with teachers who were disliked by their students, and I always felt sorry for them. I felt they weren’t reaching them. That they were stepping behind them, instead of steeping in front of ( Read more... )

One of the greatest actors of our time speaks about acting.Although this is Sir Ian on "Extras" (Ricky Gervais' raucous and scathing comedy), his ability to release is what is noteworthy here. In a 3 minute monologue, lampooning his own process as an artist, McKellen inadvertently gives is great insight into what it is he actually does. Watch as he ( Read more... )

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A fascinating and ultimately disturbing look into the mind of a man who was most likely one of the most notorious and controversial President's of out time.

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Chenoweth is slowly becoming a National Treasure.

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Whether Mr. Doyle has sex with men anymore really has nothing to do with anything. I know a lot of celibate people and what they don't do in their bedroom has very little to do with who they'd like to do in their bedroom. Changing from homosexuality to heterosexuality really isn't the issue. We're focusing on the wrong thing here. With all the ( Read more... )

For a month I would look up, every morning and every night before I went to bed, and try to see the sky. But it became futile. After a while I simply accepted the fact that I had been placed in the center of foggy, sea-weary Brigadoon. I was to spend the month of July wrapped carefully in a chilly blanket of steam that covered the CSU campus in ( Read more... )

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We are already connected. That was taken care of by something much bigger and much greater than we ever dreamed possible. This isn't something we can avoid or ignite. We are in the middle, all of us, of the human experience, and that puts us near to each other. Our sufferings and our achievements are shared, even half way across the world. Just ( Read more... )