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This means that CNBC looks at everything, particularly politics, in terms of how it will affect "the Market." The commentators on CNBC murmur about the Market as if it were the Island on Lost: a mystic force that must be placated, lest it become angry and punish us. "The Market doesn't like ..." "What the Market wants...
...people’s interest but the word on street is that [being a proctor] is rewarding work and people have a chance to make a difference,” Dingman said. Dingman said that the FDO has been working to cut programs and costs that will not directly affect students. The FDO has already cut 5 percent of its costs this year, reducing the number publications it prints and sending out letters to parents online rather than by mail. To meet the College’s mandatory 15 percent cut on all office budgets, the FDO also plans...
...were never officially considering Eve 6.” The concert, which will be open to Harvard undergraduates, will take place on a Sunday this year, as opposed to last year’s Saturday performance. Mee said he does not expect the Sunday date to affect turnout, as the concert was held on Sunday in its first iteration and still saw a large turnout. He added that it should be over by 9 p.m. Last year, pop-rock artist Gavin DeGraw and hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan performed on the steps of Memorial Church to a crowd...
...director of the Center for Art & Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, said that Mosher’s work is an example of how artists can instigate change on issues of global importance. “We live in a visual culture, and artists can affect how people see the world,” he said. Mosher said she was motivated to complete this large-scale project by a desire to open up a more diverse discourse on environmentalism. “The environmental community seemed to be self-selective and not diverse,” she said...
Besides, Limbaugh plays a valuable role within conservatism. His show, like Fox News, is not as high-flown as conservative intellectual journals such as the New Criterion and First Things. But those publications have small circulations. Their influence is long-term and indirect. Conservatism needs mass media too, to affect day-to-day politics: jam phone lines and pull the national conversation rightward. It needs Limbaugh and the many like-minded talkers elsewhere on the airwaves. Doubtless they could do their jobs better, as could the conservative writers who scorn them. But if Limbaugh did not exist, conservatives would have...