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...disappointed by Joe Klein's assessment that the Democratic presidential candidates have "become pretty boring" [IN THE ARENA, Sept. 29]. Klein reinforced the notion that political campaigns should entertain the public. Must candidates use reality-TV techniques to shock us out of complacency? When excitement becomes a criterion for choosing the President, voters will just pick the hottie of the moment and have a brief, exciting fling. Klein might have used his column to generate some energy, urging Americans to concentrate on a key issue, visit the candidates' websites or tune in to the debates, where I've seen...
...goal of the show is to entertain. Any time you try to be didactic, you end up not being able to get people excited. You sound like a Sunday morning talk show,” he says. “Our world [on the show] deals with a world of idealism and possibility. If we can tap into that, that’s great...
...quickly once the U.S. occupied Iraq. Since then, Iraq has been scoured, and nearly every top weapons scientist has been captured or interviewed. That the investigators have found no hidden stockpiles of VX gas or anthrax or intact gas centrifuges suggests that it may be time to at least entertain the possibility that Iraqi officials all along were telling the truth when they said they no longer had a WMD program...
...prevented from squabbling too much by a little ocean and a few hundred years of history. In an age of monopolistic record companies and internet file-sharing, you could be forgiven for expecting everyone to listen to the same music—whatever the corporate gods see fit to entertain us. Everyone likes talking about Radiohead, everyone is afflicted with Britney Spears, Coldplay is everywhere on both sides of the Atlantic. But look closer, and the common tastes start to vanish...
...been done before: thousands of undergraduate athletes cross the river every day, and, although this is another story, some of the best streaking when I was an undergraduate took place on the shady side of the river. Let’s not be too stodgy; let’s entertain the possibility that the Allston campus might be used not merely for the University but also for the College...