Word: channelling
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Many students say each channel requires itsrecipients to comply with strict criteria, makingit difficult for some groups to qualify for anyUniversity funding...
Arpaio is the former federal drug agent who brought back chain gangs and black-and-white-striped convict outfits. He's the man who blacked out all television for inmates except G-rated flicks, the Weather Channel, Newt Gingrich videos and (opponents of torture may want to look away here) C-SPAN. He put up a neon vacancy sign at the tent city--get it?--served ostrich meat and green bologna to save tax dollars and made the inmates wear that pink underwear to make it harder for them to smuggle it out and to humiliate them. Sales of pink...
...toward the fellow with the loudest voice--the crank with the thickest sheaf of mimeographed papers under his arm. The Founders had a horror of direct democracy for this very reason, and the system they devised was meant specifically to calm the passions, quiet the mob and channel its energies, and create a space for sober decision making by people the voters had chosen to make decisions for them...
...sports, in fact, left their mark: snowboarders treated the Olympics as if they were a halfpipe, as expected, and curling captivated so many television viewers across the world with its stately version of Go-on-ice that in Sweden viewers protested when a local channel switched to figure skating...
...billion-dollar bullet trains, and when the eye makes out giant Coke bottles in the middle of white Alpine silence. Indeed, one by-product of last week's reminder that nature doesn't bend to bullet-train schedules was that suddenly curling, unsmudged by the snow, appeared on Channel 36 in Nagano, and then on Channel 48 and Channel 47, the camera trained on competitors who looked like your Uncle Bob and the sound track made up of nothing but their curses, asides and excited cries of "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" (a technical term, one was told, meaning they should move...