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...might not think people would choose to listen to conversations in a frat house. Yet every afternoon Opie and Anthony spend four hours calling each other gay, drooling over hot moms and barraging women to "whip 'em out." It's not even a carefully constructed frat chat: an hour before airtime, six staff members, all guys, sit around watching Jackass, shooting baskets and occasionally surfing news websites. They're less like people preparing for a radio show than people waiting for a pizza...
...dissidents, whom China doesn't tolerate well, to raise objections. "They will tear down our homes, waste our water and charge us high taxes, just so they can host a stupid event to look good for the rest of the world," wrote a disgruntled resident in an online chat room. Liang Congjie, top environmental adviser to the Beijing Olympic bidders, shares those concerns. "My greatest worry is that the committee will focus on making Beijing into a showcase city with water-wasting stretches of grass," he says. Other fears are that work on improving wastewater treatment and mass transit will...
Former provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 describes how at the end of the day, Rudenstine would often stop by to chat informally, outside of their myriad formal meetings...
...Despite Disney's spin, Internet chat rooms reflect a certain hostility. Hundreds have joined a thread titled, Committee to Boycott Pearl Harbor. One contributor gripes: "They'll probably make a movie called Hiroshima next, in which heroic American soldiers bomb those evil Japanese and save the world." Another writes: "In Armageddon, you could excuse the message that America is number one because it's science fiction. But Pearl Harbor looks to be pure propaganda...
...another peculiarity: this ritual of relaxation is cresting at a cultural moment when noise and agitation are everywhere. We work longer hours, with TVs and portable radios blaring as the sound track for frantic wage slaves. If a teen isn't trussed to his headphones or plugged into a chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. In this modern maelstrom, yoga's tendency to stasis and silence seems at first insane, then inspired. The notion of bodies at rest becoming souls at peace is reactionary, radical and liberating. If it cures nagging backache, swell...