Word: emerson
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...hand for emphasis. “What’s really amazing is that his work [from the 1950s] is still dynamic, resonant, and conscious today,” said Daniel Tobin, a member of the Poetry Club and chair of the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. The pieces Ferlinghetti selected addressed themes ranging from T.S. Eliot’s romanticism to his own upbringing in Brooklyn to what he called “the increasingly cataclysmic world of the 21st century.” As founder of the San Francisco bookstore and printing house City...
Other viral videos show genuine comic smarts. One night in January a couple of Emerson College students named Jonathan Ade and Patrick DiNicola had a brain wave and stayed up late re-editing footage from the Back to the Future trilogy to create Brokeback to the Future, the time-traveling love story of young Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Viral gold. "A friend of ours posted it onto YouTube," says Ade, 21. "After that point it got away from us." Brokeback to the Future has been viewed more than 3 million times...
...permeating the workforce since the letter was sent. “This is what we’ve been hoping for all along,” he said. “We just want to open up a dialogue with our company.” SEIU Local 615 organizer Emerson Harris said that the decision for Allied workers not to protest is a reciprocation of the company’s good will. By not marching, Harris said that workers were telling their company that “if you reach out, so will we.” SLAM concluded...
...would continue to make himself accessible to the media, he responded dismissively, "I will be available when I have something to announce." Other members of the government have similarly been less than media savvy. When Ethics Commissioner Bernard Shapiro announced he was investigating the defection of Liberal David Emerson directly into the Conservative Cabinet after the federal election, Buckler said the Prime Minister would be "loath to cooperate...
...representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce (such meetings are highly unusual). In February a Canadian government official contacted a patent-office lawyer to find out if the Canadian Patent Office should "exert an interest or pressure" on its American counterpart. That November Canada's Minister of Industry, David Emerson, wrote to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, urging that the patent office expedite the review of NTP's patents or at least lay out a timetable in public. "We knew nothing about these contacts and weren't given a chance to respond," says Kevin Anderson, a lawyer...