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...have claimed Columbia. Experts sought to reassemble 32 seconds of vital, if patchy, data that sputtered down from Columbia after voice communications were lost. As NASA scrambled to manage events, officials in Washington began taking sides, some sharpening the long knives for the agency, others lining up to defend it. "Space exploration will go on," says Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana. "[But] there will be intense investigations...
...know that there's little reality in reality TV: those "intimate" dates, for instance, are staged in front of banks of cameras and sweltering floodlights. But it's the only phrase we've got, and I'm sticking with it. Second, I don't pretend to defend the indefensible: Are You Hot? The Search for America's Sexiest People isn't getting any help from me. And finally, I realize that comparing even a well-made reality show with, say, The Simpsons is not merely comparing apples with oranges; it's comparing onions with washing machines--no reality show...
...aesthetics aside, the case against reality TV is mainly moral--and there's a point to it. It's hard to defend the deception of Joe Millionaire--which set up 20 women to court construction worker Evan Marriott by telling them he was a multimillionaire--as hilarious as its fool's-gold chase can be. Even the show's Potemkin Croesus contends that producers hid the show's premise from him until the last minute. "The day before I left for France, I signed confidentiality papers which said what the show was about," Marriott tells TIME. "At that point, could...
...more than ever, everybody wants in. According to 8 Garden Street, the ranks of applicants this year swelled to over 20,000—that’s more than the total of Anglo and allied forces who gave their lives to defend civilization in the Battle of Waterloo. These young ones are eager to enlist, but are they prepared to join us in fighting for the common cause of students, faculty and administrators alike: defending the innocence and emptiness of our speech? We guard the border between ourselves and meaning with think-tanks from which we fire blanks wildly...
...terrific shooter, he put the ball on the floor and he always made big shots against us. We were set to prepare for him in practice on Monday when we heard the news. But they (Harvard) have a lot of depth and you still need to defend their plays, so we’re preparing the same...