Classes in improvisation and stage combat, lessons in lighting -- Mr. Braff, a self-professed "film geek," reveled in it all.
In a true-to-life twist, however, which all battered wives and girlfriends will instantly recognise, J-Lo turns out to have a long-lost mega-rich daddy who pays for her unarmed combat lessons to beat seven shades of crap out of the bastard!
Importantly, we have introduced a tough resolution framework to combat moral hazard, a lesson from our own financial crisis in the 1990s.Based upon our principles, a bank's shareholders, subordinated debtholders, and management cannot expect to be rescued by taxpayers.
Stories are laden with high drama, palace intrigue, romance, philosophy, combat, mysticism and moral lessons.
Mr. Smith describes basic training at one of the legion's "farms": running, French lessons, combat training, rope climbing and more running.
If a superhero is going to school, shouldn't the place have the charm of Percy Jackson's Camp Half-Blood, the whimsy of Harry Potter's "Potions and Dark Arts," or the ineffable cool factor of the X-Mansion's close combat and flying lessons?
We are offered regular sermons, notably from Alec Baldwin in his briefings and from Kate Beckinsale in a final voice-over, on the principles of combat and the lessons of loss; and our eyes are averted to Washington, D.C., where a staunch F.D.R. (Jon Voight) urges his countrymen first to vigilance and then to arms.
Then there was a darker curriculum: drills in combat skills, literature lessons that descended into violence and unpredictable nighttime visits when he would return from his late shift at the post office, pull his "black devil child" from bed and beat her until his fury and frustration were spent.
For a wilder experience, the Centre of Horseback Combat in Hertfordshire offers lessons in horseback archery, trick riding and medieval jousting on trained Spanish stunt horses.
Recent wars have taught combat surgeons many new lessons that later caught on in civilian emergency rooms, said Dr. David E. Lounsbury, a retired colonel and co-author of a 2008 Army textbook, "War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007".
Pondering such morally complex incidents from the annals of modern combat and debating the lessons they provide for the current crop of military leaders and foot soldiers is the aim of a new scholarly publication, the Journal of Military Ethics.
