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...director, my driving source of inspiration is the audience. Theater is more than simply a play on the stage; it’s a ritual, a social occasion for people to come together and experience community,” Paulus wrote in her inaugural address as Artistic Director. The organization of the current season’s schedule attests to an emphasis on encouraging dynamic interchange between the performer and spectator...
...visiting Edward R. Murrow lecturer. Okrent, previously a Shorenstein fellow and an associate with the center, will teach a class on writing and reporting politics. Alex S. Jones, director of the center, said he thought this year’s class of fellows was particularly well-suited to address the polarized nature of modern political discourse. “We’re in an even more partisan, poisonous environment than we ever have been,” said Jones, who pointed to the health-care debate as a particularly striking current example. “With these fellows...
Those words cut in politics. When directed at the President of the United States - during a prime-time address to the nation, no less - they cut deep...
...still out of reach, the instant polls suggested he had indeed made some headway. In a national survey by CNN, 2 out of 3 of those watching said they might favor his health-care proposal, which was a 14-point jump from before the President gave the address on Sept. 9 to a packed House chamber. But as Bill Clinton - or his wife, the Secretary of State, who was sitting in the front row - could tell Obama, it's best not to get too euphoric at the way a speech can make the numbers jump. After all, Clinton got virtually...
...natural give-and-take of the legislative process and how it plays out in the media. The larger goals, they say, get lost in the politics and the arguments over individual aspects of the bills. What Obama and his strategists concluded - paradoxically - was that the spotlight of a presidential address could take the public's attention off the politicians (including a President whose approval ratings have been edging down) and put it back on the larger goals that Obama is trying to achieve. As a senior White House official explained a few hours before the speech, "When you ask people...