Word: contentions
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...same applies to controversial issues specific to Harvard. If enough students are really miffed by the supposed lack of Faculty diversity, there is nothing stopping them from launching a vocal movement. In the meantime, the lack of such a movement is an indication that most of us are perfectly content with the progress of the University's already vigorous affirmative action programs...
Whether a turbocharged Web connection fundamentally changes the way we use the Internet or merely caffeinates our clicking remains to be seen. Even the reigning king of online content, America Online, isn't sure. "The challenge is to find new content that is both really exciting and needs to be interactive--you can't just do a bad version of TV," says Bob Pittman, president of America Online. He has a team at AOL working on concepts. In the meantime, we'll take the speed...
...content, it is of course nothing new for a series to combine comic and serious elements. What makes Sports Night different is the kind of issues it takes up, which are more sinewy than the usual interpersonal mush (although the show has that too). Characters are confronted with challenges to their professional and personal integrity, as when Dana had to decide how the show should handle an interview with a star athlete who had committed an assault on one of its producers. (That episode ran without a laugh track, something the producers have wanted all along but the network agreed...
Maybe the critics are right. Maybe what animated us back then was less the spirit of exploration than the spur of nationalism. Maybe it was all about beating the Russians. How else to explain how we've been content to go around in circles--literally, around and around in low-earth orbit--for the past quarter-century...
...Consequently, the effort they put in produces positive results. My sons see their parents read. They were read to at home. We've encouraged and praised the genuine efforts they've made. But the bottom line for my sons is that until something ignites them from within, they are content to do as little work as possible. SANDY SIMONSON Jacksonville...