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Latino history with professor John Leguizamo, the CliffsNotes edition

Edit Topix 09 Jul 2016
John Leguizamo offers his remedial class on culture in "Latin History for Morons," which is having its world premiere in Berkeley. John Leguizamo offers his remedial class on culture in "Latin History for Morons," which is having its world premiere in Berkeley ... ....

Catch ‘em All at Crystal Bridges (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jul 2016
(Source. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art). A screenshot of the Pokemon Go game shows the footprint of Crystal Bridges, along with a map of the Museum grounds, peppered with icons indicating the locations of individual Pokemon or Pokemon gyms. Here's something I just learned today. Crystal Bridges' galleries are apparently crawling with Pokemon ... For those of you, like me, haven't a clue about this, here's the CliffsNotes ... and Mrs....

New Study Shows Promise for Reducing Early Warning Indicators (America's Promise Alliance)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016
(Source. America's Promise Alliance). An independent evaluation of the Diplomas Now model shows that its approach can help middle school students increase their odds of graduating high school on time by reducing their number of early warning indicators ... What do you do? ... In a new report, Addressing Early Warning Indicators ... Photo credit. City Year ... Here are the CliffsNotes on how the Diplomas Now early warning indicator system works ... (noodl....

5 Jarringly Idiotic Right-Wing Moments This Week: Not Just About the Brexit

Edit Alternet 26 Jun 2016
Trump spews nonsense while O'Reilly makes perfect sense as the embodiment of white supremacy. Immediately after his conspiracy theory- and lie-fueled speech attacking Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, Donald Trump oh-so-presidentially flew to Scotland to ride around in a golf cart with one of his baseball caps on ... It’s hard to stay up on things when you’re busy reading conspiracy theories all day, and CliffsNotes of Hillary-hit-job books....

Here are 3 simple reasons why traditional retailers are doomed

Edit Business Insider 13 Jun 2016
Here's some not-so-shocking news. traditional department stores are still struggling to lift sales. Sales in May fell 3.9% compared to the prior year, worsening from a 2.9% drop in April, Morgan Stanley said in a note Monday ... "We do not expect this trend to abate." ... In a recent conversation with Business Insider, he shared the CliffsNotes version of why traditional retailers are underperforming their brick-and-mortar counterparts ... ....

25 American classics everyone should read at least once

Edit Business Insider 09 Jun 2016
And maybe it's finally time to enjoy "The Grapes of Wrath" and other classics, instead of just the CliffsNotes version ... ....

Donald Trump Is Underwater With the All-Important ‘Writers of Literary Fiction’ Demographic

Edit New York Magazine 25 May 2016
Donald Trump just lost the Iowa Writers' Workshop. On Tuesday, more than 400 literary luminaries — including Stephen King, Dave Eggers, Amy Tan, Junot Díaz, and Cheryl Strayed — signed on to "An Open Letter to the American People" decrying the Donald's candidacy. Here's the CliffsNotes version. Because, as writers, ... More » ... ....

In Love & Friendship, Whit Stillman and Kate Beckinsale Prove They're the Masters of Austenland

Edit Houston Press 25 May 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. -. In his archly empathetic comedies, Whit Stillman has long chronicled the uncertain ways in which young people of privilege launch themselves into worlds too in decline to offer them much ... And Beckinsale will reel through a paragraph of Austen's richest prose, and her scene partner will blink at her, overwhelmed, waiting for the CliffsNotes ... He's Stephen Fry ... Plus ...   ... ....

Sounds Like The X-Men Movies Want To Try Dark Phoenix One More Time

Edit Cinema Blend 20 May 2016
This summer certainly seems to be full of large scale, epic superhero movies. While the genre always creates big productions, this summer’s films feature ensemble casts who will use their powers to battle amongst themselves. Now that Batman v Superman and Captain America ... Apocalypse ... And it looks like a story we’ve seen before ... The entire mythology of the Phoenix is a bit confusing, but the cliffsnotes are as follows ... ....

R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party

Edit Rollingstone 18 May 2016
Indianapolis, Indiana, May 3rd, 2016, a little before 8.30 p.m. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz strode onstage beneath a gorgeous stained-glass relief in the city's Union Station. The hall was doubling as a swanky bar for an upscale local hotel, and much of the assembled press was both lubricated and impatient ... Cruz smiled ... The CliffsNotes summary of his monstrous piece, "Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic," might go something like this ... ....

New Book Identifies 50 Studies Every Pediatrician Should Know (University of California, Riverside)

Edit Public Technologies 16 May 2016
(Source. University of California, Riverside). UC Riverside's Ashaunta Anderson contributed 13 chapters covering topics such as febrile infants, lead exposure, and epilepsy. By Iqbal Pittalwala on May 16, 2016 ... School of Medicine, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif ... 'It comes naturally to me, perhaps as a result,' she said ... 'We have essentially provided CliffsNotes on 50 studies that shaped the current clinical practice of pediatrics.' ... (noodl....

Why Kit Harington Revealed Jon Snow's Fate To A Police Officer

Edit Cinema Blend 14 May 2016
Spoilers ahead for the most recent episode of Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones created one of the most talked about and theorized plot twists in the history of television during last season’s finale ... Well almost completely ... Harington was apparently forbade to tell a living soul about his character, including his family and friends ... A police officer ... He didn’t just know the cliffsnotes version of Game of Thrones, he knew the specifics ... ....

De Blasio’s administration might be the dumbest in modern times

Edit New York Post 26 Apr 2016
Bill de Blasio can’t even whine coherently. No wonder he’s in so much trouble. Take the lawyer’s letter the mayor dispatched Sunday, complaining about a leaked report accusing him of felony-level violations of state campaign-finance law. Its prose is so opaque normal people will need a can opener to get into it, but here’s the CliffsNotes. “We didn’t do anything wrong, but even if we did it wasn’t nice to rat us out to the DA.”....
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