Word: buttons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crowd at yearly Kos, the Daily Kos' bloggers' convention in Las Vegas last week, was predictably politigeeky. Glued to their laptops, the bloggers wore their liberal hearts on their lapels. (The most popular button showed Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, reviled for his pro-war position, kissing George W. Bush.) But in defiance of the image of the blogger, the crowd wasn't young...
...both insight and wisdom.” “Since we’re all law school geeks, we found it fantastic,” he said. The Class Day exercises also included remarks by other class marshals, who spoke about their experiences at the traditionally button-down and competitive law school by remembering lighter moments, such as ice cream parties, “broom ball” games at the ice rink, and one particular professor’s prowess on the basketball court. Six of the nine members of the Court that Greenhouse covers attended Harvard...
...differ on the current hot-button issue of immigration...
...that deals with issues that are substantive,” he says. “We decided not to write down to the audience, like many shows do. Hopefully our show works on several different levels.”For instance, the show’s plot features a button, which some characters believe they must press once every 108 minutes. “The button for us was a metaphor about faith,” Cuse says.“Would you undertake a mission that was of greater importance without any empirical evidence that the missions had value...
...Baby Einstein vs. Barbie Overscheduled kids. Overprotective parents. They're hot-button media issues, but are they really the problems faced by most American families...