Word: badgering
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...point of all these activities is to collect as many names as possible of potential supporters and then badger the prospects until they cast their ballots. Those Yale studies found that pleading doesn't become ineffective until after the third appeal. Washington University sophomore Charlie Bittner, 19, told the group he planned to take the personal approach even further. "I will lead groups every 30 minutes from a spot on campus to the polling place," he said. "People feel more comfortable if they're part of a group...
...Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “Though the other determining factor, more importantly, is that they really don’t like to fly in more than two teams for Regionals.”As the bracket stands, the Crimson will fly to Madison to play the Badgers while Minnesota-Duluth will travel to Erie, Pa. to square off against No. 2 Mercyhurst. Boston College drew No. 3 Dartmouth and St. Lawrence is set to take on No. 4 UNH in the two local games of the playoff round.Arguably the combination that best preserves the integrity...
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Overstimulation, hypergreed and a kind of idiocy--those three stooges--have a way of tumbling into the room along with technological progress, which gives them respectability and theological cover. Mr. Badger, Toad's killjoy twin, makes these points: 1) each transformative moment will be superseded by another one, tomorrow or the next day--all marvels are disposable; 2) innovations are not always wonderful; 3) the world is round and time is circular; human nature is constant, but 4) may be damaged--or what is worse, humiliated--by novelties, which (like '70s neckties or television in any decade) may have about...
...that Mr. Badger is a Luddite. He merely points out that technology has a mixed record. CB radio was a Toad mania long ago. Technology is sometimes, in the end, a little stupid--as anything must be that was brilliant yesterday but was surpassed overnight--a monster that lives on a hungry, dynamic need for its own obsolescence. The universe of Gutenberg should no more be an abandoned graveyard than, say, the American city, which, a generation after World War II, seemed to be in decline and headed toward extinction. Why did we need the cities when...