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Reuven Adler accepted the daunting challenge in the 2001 election of trying to soften Ariel Sharon's image. "He's a warrior. He's quite fat, and when he walks, he stomps along," Adler, an advertising executive, recalls thinking. "We had to give him some feminine appeal." Sharon, Adler calculated, was too far to the right on the political spectrum to gain broad support. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 representing the extreme left wing and 5 the far right, Adler figured, Sharon was a 4.7. The winner of every previous election had been a little right...
...This isn't your grandfather's photo-sharing site" is the tag line on flickr.com's homepage. But there's no reason for anyone of any age to be put off: the great appeal of this irreverent, one-year-old start-up is just how easy its technology makes it to share your pictures. The secret ingredient is Flickr's use of keyword tags. These can be attached to your photo files, making online albums as searchable as the Web itself. And with 80% of the site's 8 million photos open to the public (you can set your privacy...
...theory goes that if minority voters vote in blocks, raising this threshold would diminish the power of those blocks, making a more diverse UC harder to achieve. Without questioning whether the student body is better off with reps elected by one of these blocks—minority candidates should appeal to a broad constituency, after all—the best solution would ultimately be to encourage more students from diverse backgrounds to run for office...
Reacting to the off-color antics of last year’s Class Day speaker, the administration also encouraged the class marshals to select a speaker who would appeal to parents and family members of graduates as well as the students themselves, said Class Marshal Sheria D. Smith...
Franklin added that aside from his more universal appeal, Russert has a unique and relevant perspective on the events that have effected this year’s graduates...