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...expounding on the merits of creationism or turn a history period into an advertisement for Scientology while hiding behind the shield of free speech. Similarly, a teacher should not be permitted to create a classroom climate that alienates certain students. While political buttons can be characterized as a benign form of self-identification, they also are inherently elements of proselytization. Buttons, which are primarily created by political campaigns for the purpose of rallying supporters, are designed to be seen and to elicit a specific response in others. This is particularly obvious with buttons containing imperative statements like...
...opportunity presented itself in an unlikely form when, in Oct. 2005, about a month before Wyclef’s scheduled performance, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake ravaged Pakistan and killed over 80,000 people. International consciousness turned to South Asia, and a group of Harvard students founded the Earthquake Relief Coalition to raise funds for victims...
...case, Chambers likely made his point; time will tell whether the sideshow he began will actually have any meaningful effect on the form or function of Nebraska courts. One fact has been confirmed, however: An attention-starved state senator is no match for an all-knowing God—at least before the appeals process...
...that they do have permission to invade student space, the crew of three gets to work filming (several times) the dramatic entrance of a reporter into the midst of the completely apathetic group. (FM does not speak Japanese, therefore it is entirely possible that the commentary is actually some form of psychoanalysis.) Of course, viewers in Japan won’t be pleased watching this humdrum scene, so the crew kindly asks the students to look away from their laptops for a minute and cheer loudly while they are filming. On the fourth take, a loud roar finally spontaneously emanates...
...speech was followed by a more traditional form of damage control when Wright showed up in Washington still spewing racial nonsense: Obama cut him loose. And while Obama has followed a fairly traditional political path in this campaign, his strongest - and most telling - moments have been those when he followed his natural no-drama instincts. This has been confusing to many of my colleagues and to me, at times, as well: his utter caution in the debates, his decision not to zing McCain or even to challenge him very much, led me to assume - all three times - that he hadn...