Word: brockman
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Representative democracy is the wrong model for the council as it currently works. It probably never occurred to the current council's founders to do it any differently; they must have said the Pledge of Allegiance a few too many times in elementary school. But to paraphrase Kent Brockman, I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy just doesn't work on this campus...
...some of the subtlest humor anywhere: news anchor Kent Brockman announces that 38 million American are obese and adds "Put together, this excess blubber would be enough to fill up the Grand Canyon two fifths of the way up. This might not sound very impressive, but keep in mind this is a very large canyon...
...things soon got worse for Kolata. On Wednesday the Los Angeles Times suggested that her enthusiasm for Folkman's work might have been influenced by a potential book deal. She had, in fact, at the urging of her agent John Brockman, dashed off an e-mail message that Brockman told her could, in the hands of the right publisher, be worth a cool $2 million. But after meeting with her editors on Tuesday, Kolata quashed any idea of writing a book. "I did not plan a book," she says. "I did not write anything that anyone could remotely consider...
...There are really two neighborhoods in East Cambridge: the traditional residential areas and the emerging luxury areas on the outskirts," Brockman says...
...First Lady draws her own share of fire. About 500 men, women and children braved a wet, bitter wind to protest her visit last month to Wausau, Wisconsin. BILL AND HILLARY, PREZ AND CO-PREZ OF SLEAZE, read many of the placards. In the middle of the crowd Constance Brockman, an apple-cheeked mother of two, talked about why she came out in such foul weather. Brockman, a 38-year-old homemaker, said she was worried about social ills -- crime and the lack of sexual abstinence among teenagers -- which she blames the Clinton Administration for exacerbating. "The country...