曾几何时,美国号称拥有世界上最好的公立教育系统,但在过去的三十多年里,虽然政客们不断强调要改善弊端丛生的教育系统,可是孩子们的教育情况始终没有任何改观,反而呈现令人担忧的前景。这些出生在普通家庭的孩子,多在阅读和数学方面存在着巨大的障碍,且平均水平大大低于地球上其他发达国家。甚至有的高中成为...
Inthistwo-partseries,SimonReevetravelstoGreece,oneofthemostbeautiful,troubled,andextremecountriesinEurope.TravellingfromtheIslandsoftheAegeantotheruggedandmountainousnorth,Simongetsbehindthepicture-postcardimagetolearnmoreaboutGreeceandtheGreeks-andwhythecountryhasfacedaseeminglyendlesseconom...
After some years of tension, Richard (Clive Owen) begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie (Saskia Reeves). Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional. Their private intensity (& working class origins) contrast with the middle-class, inhibited, stuffy public ...