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...paragons select an investment bank to impugn—a target fit for the coward or the sycophant too fearful or too flattering not to pander to popular prejudices. Despite the competitive investment-bank recruiting process and their selective hiring, it is de rigueur for Harvard opinion-makers to cast aspersions at them. As they submit their résumés in droves, Harvard students only sheepishly admit their interest in finance, repeatedly avow not to “sell out,” and abjure any attraction to filthy lucre. Surely, earning a pay check, in whichever...
Facebook isn’t the best measure of serious political sentiment in the country—probably not many of Colbert’s 1.4 million Facebook backers intend to cast a vote for Steven come primary day. But the unprecedented level of support for him speaks volumes about the popular perception of presidential politics. Colbert is a satirist who mocks the system—his entire character is a self-parodying illusion. The fact that a “fake” candidacy can generate so much more enthusiasm than any of the various “real?...
...Diebold, was widely accused in 2004 of ties to the Republican Party.) Fifteen Florida counties adopted touch-screen as well, and they learned the pitfalls of it the hard way, dealing with controversies like a 2006 congressional race in the Sarasota district, where an astonishing 15% of the ballots cast registered no choice at all - in a race that was decided by a razor-thin margin of 386 votes...
...come see “Urinetown?”AS: Well, “Urinetown” is an amazing show about pee, which is something everyone can relate to. Everyone pees. It’s not like a pseudo-intellectual sort of show. RR: Do you have the cast hold it in for long periods of time in order to get in the mood?AS: That’s something I’m trying. I was thinking maybe today or tomorrow, just to really help them get into character, like, hold them in a room for three hours...
...encounter between the evil sorcerer Oswald, Cupid, and the tutelary spirit of the frost.The set design, which consists of sliding panels that close and open up, approximating an authentic baroque set, allows the production to move between the world of spoken dialogue and the rarified realm of the masques.The cast and crew speculate that the masques’ focus on the aesthetic and the figurative has allowed them to age more gracefully than the unmusical parts of the script.“People have to interpret the spoken dialogue as comedic now,” Powell explains...