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...relationship with the media and establish the truth of how the newly unified world we live in operates. “What is real is like nectar,” Suskind said, “and how do we arrive at evidence that alters our assumptions and helps us access the world as it is?” Law School student Nathan P. Hamilton said that though he did not agree with all of Suskind’s points, he appreciated his hopeful message. “This kind of took a step back and made us realize that despite...
...they have become more and more the norm. Newsweek photographer Arthur Grace wrote in his 1988 book, “Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race,” “Political campaigns are now carefully staged for the picture media. They are scripted, choreographed and sanitized. Access to reality has been severely limited. Today politicians still want the cameras to project their messages but they want it done on their terms and almost never in a natural, spontaneous way.” Grace’s gripes obscure the fact that, as Harvard Professor Kiku Adatto details...
...long been a fan of the Sonos music system, a collection of small, cigar-box-sized devices that attach to any stereo in my home and allow me to wirelessly stream digital music. I couple it with the music subscription service, Rhapsody, and get access to some 5 million songs - virtually anything I want to hear, whenever I want to hear...
...March, anti-Chinese riots in the Tibetan capital Lhasa did turn violent, leading to scores of fatalities on both sides. Chinese authorities swiftly sealed off Tibet and rounded up hundreds of suspects, some of whom reportedly remain in jail nearly eight months later. With access to the region still almost completely blocked, there have been only intermittent reports of further protests and alleged abuses and human rights violations by Chinese security forces attempting to quash the simmering dissent. Resentment against Beijing has exploded sporadically among the roughly six million Tibetans living in the mountainous region ever since troops...
...arrested. Syrian troops have also deployed along the northern border of neighboring Lebanon in what Damascus says is an attempt to block jihadists from slipping into Syria. These recent developments have raised speculation that Syria is threatened by a blowback from jihadist militants who no longer have easy access to cross the border into Iraq and instead are turning their attention to the secular regime in Damascus. "We assumed the Syrians were chucking people in jail, which they could be doing, but it could also be that the foreign fighters are backing up at the border with Iraq and they...