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Thus, the advent of child suffrage will promote democracy in two important ways, revitalizing efficacy in the currently under-represented young adult and eliminating the last artificial barrier that remains between citizens and truly free and fair voting procedures...
...unimposing student center, which handicapped its viability. Phillip Parsons, then director of planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was especially cognizant of the desire not to undermine House life—the perennial complaint about the notion of an inter-House social center. But since the advent of randomization in blocking, College social life no longer revolves around the Houses. And because of the College’s shortage of rehearsal, practice and meeting spaces, House spaces are no longer capable of accommodating their own communities. A student center today is needed in order to save House life...
Ultimately, the production shows that a true classic will never age. The human quest for fulfillment, painful as it can be, is just as touching today as it was at the advent of theater...
...With the advent of the 24-hour cable news channel, the news industry began to digress from serious (albeit occasionally soporific) to bombastic, sensational and disposable. Today’s news is riddled with salacious stories, think O.J. Simpson or Chandra Levy, that are entertaining but utterly irrelevant and inconsequential. Unfortunately, this journalistic indiscretion has at least one serious negative consequence. As it is natural to assume that a story’s importance is proportional to the amount of media coverage it generates, the media is disseminating a warped worldview to an unsuspecting, gullible public. The media must remember...
...much to pay for a TV set, consider yourself spoiled. In the 1950s, when the cathode-ray tube was cutting edge, an average TV cost about $1,000, according to Semenza. Adjusted for inflation, that's $6,700 today?comparable to the most advanced flat-screen TVs. The advent of the flat TV is seen by an electronics industry accustomed to razor-thin margins as a chance to reap some fat profits from a new technology. Japan's Sharp Corp. announced this month that sales of LCD TVs contributed to pushing up profits 40% in the first half of this...