Word: discussants
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...historical basis for creating a Read/Write culture: Lessig resurrects the testimony of American composer John Phillip Sousa, who went before Congress in 1906 to discuss copyright reform: "When I was a boy ... in front of every house in the summer evenings you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or the old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left.'" As Lessig explains, "Sousa was not offering a prediction about the evolution of the human voice box. He was describing how a technology ... would change...
DRCLAS, referred to by its affiliates as “Doctor Class,” began the “Diálogo” discussions last year. While the center also sponsors various travel abroad programs, Howell said organizers hope “to continue the Latin experience once people returned to the U.S.” The talks aim to provide an opportunity for students to discuss Latin American issues in an informal setting...
...broad suggestions to households: lead a personally sustainable life (Friedman, incidentally, lives in an 11,400 square-foot home) and work to change national leadership. On this latter point, Friedman argues the obvious, that we need innovation, clear leadership signals, and fully-functioning markets, but fails to truly discuss the political process that can get us there. Furthermore, his more interesting observations are discredited by silly chapter titles such as “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” and a 12-page utopian foray into a dream-world where politicians win elections with the slogan...
TIME recently gathered four presidential historians--George Mason University's Richard Norton Smith, Yale University's Beverly Gage, and Russell Riley and David Coleman of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia--to discuss presidential temperament: what it is, who had it and how much it matters in the White House. An excerpt of their conversation...
...thumbs-up, but movie-musicals are promptly vetoed. The group breaks into a rendition of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes,” prompting someone to jokingly announce next week’s auditions for the gunshot parts in the chorus. They discuss their upcoming gig at the Head of the Charles. Later, they run through the last of their arrangements for the night, and applaud their five newest members—affectionately called “babies”—for mastering their parts so quickly...