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...blend of close matches and decisive triumphs that elevated Harvard in the championship round was ultimately the same formula that helped the squad move through the main draw...
...seems Al Gore did some sartorial cramming before his first day as a visiting professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Once he gets a pipe and loses the press corps, he'll blend in easily with the other tweedy academics on campus. Though the former V.P. has been criticized for his style, a survey of his career suggests he has always known how to dress the part...
...Sound familiar? Is this Gramscian/Tocquevillian split the same as the red/blue 50-50 division we saw on the electoral map in November? Yes, but not exactly. In millions of individual citizens' minds, elements of the two views blend. For example, I am essentially Tocquevillian, but the Tocquevillian American should nurture an enormous tolerance that is enabled by the assumptions 1) that American life ought, above all, to be fair, and 2) that there's enough here for everyone. But tolerance to a Tocquevillian is condescension to a Gramscian. Gramscianism lives on an invidious and Europeanized zero-sum kind of thinking...
...like the sound of weasel coffee? Before you answer, consider the alternative name for Trung Nguyen Caf?s signature blend: Weasel Poop Coffee. After all, the thriving Vietnamese brew traces its origin to rodent droppings...
Carlson's blend of populism, entrepreneurship and scientific know-how have are making waves in the scientific community...