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...content becomes very base and mean, and hence you get things that tend to cater to the average viewer.” Hopkins said he initially arranged a meeting with Summers to discuss what it would take to convince the former treasury secretary to participate as an expert on the site. Summers raised concerns about scholarly discourse being undermined by inappropriate content posted to the site by individual users, according to Hopkins. Summers is traveling and was unavailable for comment. After Hopkins reassured Summers that the site would be closely monitored by BigThink staff and that any questionable content would...
...former Liberian president looked relaxed as Canadian diamond expert Ian Smillie - one of the authors of a U.N. reports that accuses Taylor of being a gun smuggler - took the stand and told judges why he believed Taylor needed diamonds so badly. "They're very small, they're high value, they're easy to move [and] historically they've held their price very well," explained Smillie. "In the 1990s, the period we're talking about, they were an alternative to hard currency in countries where there was no hard currency or where people wanted to hide the movement of money...
...their part, defense lawyers tried to discredit some of Smillie's testimony as gossip and rumor and questioned his status as an expert. They'll continue their cross-examination Tuesday, when court resumes...
...Conventional wisdom" - reflected in an article by this reporter earlier this week - "has a name for candidates who rely on the youth vote: loser," said Michael McDonald, an expert on voter turnout at George Mason University. "Clearly, this was different...
BEFORE HE LAUNCHED A musical-parody troupe that wryly skewered pols from both sides of the aisle, Bill Strauss was a policy expert and adviser on serious matters of the Senate. Then at a Memorial Day party in 1981, a group of Beltway revelers broke into silly ad-lib ditties about the Reagan Administration, and the bipartisan Capitol Steps was born. Since 1984, when Strauss took the troupe professional, it has become a $3 million-a-year business, recording 29 albums and touring widely. Among its repertoire: My Momma Told Me: You Better Sleep Around (inspired by Monica Lewinsky...