Word: cult
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...people ignored Coulter, she would go away. It's impossible to have an argument without both sides participating. It becomes clear after a while that Coulter's goal is not to bash liberals and spread conservatism. It's to advance the cult of Coulter. She is simply a self-promoter in our culture of celebrity...
...folks who know the old Karmazin, the idea of splurging on content sounds like a remarkable change of heart for a guy who became a cult figure on Wall Street as a radio adman, the Infinity boss and a media consolidator focused on the bottom line. After selling Infinity to Westinghouse (which had swallowed CBS a year earlier) for $4.9 billion, he became head of CBS in 1999 and then sold the whole thing to Viacom for $40 billion. He found himself the No. 2 guy at Viacom, behind chief Sumner Redstone. The two clashed famously, in part over personalities...
Baseball plays a cruel trick on those of us who were captured by it before we even had the chance to resist. It takes hold of us, a mystical unrelenting force that someone outside the baseball cult couldn’t possibly understand. From the time of your first game, from the time you can put on a cap, from the time you know what 6-4-3 actually means, it?...
...adventure scenes. Some 400 of his works are on exhibit through July 10 at the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The late U.S. paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould ranked Burian's work alongside that of American Charles R. Knight, the world's most celebrated painter of dinosaurs. Burian earned a cult following in the Czech Republic, particularly during the totalitarian era. "Burian, who along with his nation was denied freedom in the second half of his life, was able to encode it into most of his works," Vladim?r Prokop, the exhibition's curator, says. "[He made] an effort to capture a life...
...Chinese cult of education is being exploited by Australian educators in schools, vocational colleges and universities. Institutions are not only teaching more Chinese students, and Chinese studies, but are also setting up campuses in the People's Republic. As well, secondary schools are developing courses and training host teachers so that students in China can satisfy university entrance requirements in both countries. The Chinese form Australia's largest group of international students, flipping open their laptop computers in all parts of the country. The student surge is revamping inner cities and the culture of universities. In Melbourne, foreign students from...