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...accessible language of most new media - fast-paced, direct and easy to understand. Written in academic-sounding prose, it's best suited for the university classroom. Maybe this is no surprise - Ritchin is, after all, a professor. But for someone so enamored of the idea that amateurs can beam photographs and their accompanying stories out into the world without the impediment of gatekeepers, it's a little disappointing that Ritchin's tome is clearly aimed at a small audience of professionals...
...giant trays of rice and lamb appear. The sheiks stand around as they eat directly from the trays. Everybody seems to agree that it has been a most productive morning, and as they depart, the sheiks make sure to compliment the al-Hais chieftains, Mohammed and Hamid, who beam with satisfaction. "This is politics, Anbar style," says Hamid. And what does he think of the election? "The only way anybody else can win is if they steal it, and if they try, we know how to deal with that...
...cruiser slows as it draws close to its quarry, and its four Greek sailors gather at the front windshield. One of the men trips the Lambro's floodlights. Bobbing in the open sea 50 feet away are five young men, shielding their eyes from the sudden beam of light. Closer in, it becomes clear they are wearing only bathing suits and T shirts in the chilly night, sitting in an inflatable blue-and-yellow dinghy meant for beach play and propelled by two aluminum and plastic paddles...
...television screens once again beam images of refugees jamming the red dirt roads of central Africa, and radios broadcast the crackle of gunfire from forested hills, it's clear that something needs to be done. Troops may provide succour for now; but in the long run serious pressure needs to be brought to bear on political leaders until the fighting stops...
...HUDS sponsors don’t make me feel any greater connection to the Harvard student body. Maybe Adams dining hall does makes me feel more connected to the house, but the monitors describing the “Putanesca” sauce don’t really make me beam with Crimson pride. Suddenly it hit me. The reason Professor Yasushi’s solution seemed so off was because he was trying to solve his university’s structural problem with Harvard’s cultural solution. Their campus lacked a sense of community not because they lacked...