In this week's issue of Arts & Leisure, Brooks Barnes examines the problem of "frankenfilms," Hollywood's $100 million extravaganzas that are made by committee.
His Von der Gnadenwahl (On the Election of Grace), written the same year, examines the problem of freedom, made acute at the time by the spread of Calvinism.
This absorbing memoir traces Barnes's progress from atheism (at age 20) to agnosticism (at 60) and examines the problem of religion not by rehashing the familiar quarrel between science and mystery, but rather by weighing the timeless questions of mortality and aging.
(Who would have guessed that nobody at People really found J.F.K., Jr., particularly sexy?) In a long and extensively reported piece* in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Sabrina Rubin Erdely examines the problem of on-campus rape at the University of Virginia.
Knowing it all Fantastic Mr Dahl Making life easier Power and glory in paint ReprintsRehearsing the arguments, Mr Stannard examines the problem of consciousness, asks whether it makes sense to demand an explanation of what caused the Big Bang that created the universe, and questions the source of the laws of nature and the status of mathematics.
Mr. Colicchio also was an executive producer on "A Place at the Table," a documentary that examines the problem of hunger in the United States, and he visited Washington shortly after President Obama was elected in 2008, for a inauguration dinner.
The best single documentary was won by BBC4's The Orphans of Nkandla which examined the problem of children orphaned by Aids in South Africa.
The Island, full of former career women who have settled down to raising children, is a perfect setting, the author said, to examine the problem of balancing professional aspirations with motherhood.
A report published by the Department of the Environment last year examined the problem of housing the 4.5m extra households that the government's statisticians predict will be formed in the next 20 years.
Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on participation in class and group discussions, completion of research about labor laws, completion of written chapters for a book entitled "Fair Labor," and thoughtful reaction papers that examine the problem of shaving time and offer viable solutions to this problem.
