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...people who were like, ‘I hadn’t even thought of doing this, I’m going to quit my job and go traveling around the world.’”The meme falls somewhere between art and comedy, often taking the form of a video. “I think a lot of the criteria carry over,” Connor said. When asked if the infamous video of Leeroy Jenkins, a player on “World of Warcraft,” is performance art, Connor said that...
...This form of policy change is a familiar one for the College. Earlier this semester the working draft of a new College-wide alcohol policy was unveiled in a similar manner...
...educated Duston Larsen, referring to Morales' efforts to empower Bolivia's indigenous, wrote on his MySpace page in 2007, "I used to think democracy was the best form to govern a country but ... should a larger more uneducated group of people (70%) be in charge of making decisions, running a country and voting?" The fact that Duston, in 2004, won the Mr. Bolivia beauty pageant, in the eyes of many government supporters, puts him in the company of the country's European-oriented elite. (That same year, Miss Bolivia, Gabriela Oviedo, also from the country's east, suggested Bolivia shouldn...
...effect people have on the world. You look at how Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor, has reached millions of people via YouTube with his poignant "last lecture" and its message of fortitude and good humor in the face of death. Influence like that is a form of power, but power is not always influence. The sheer hard power of a Hu Jintao or a Vladimir Putin can put them on the list, but their influence can be different from what seems most obvious. For example, Henry Kissinger writes that Hu's lasting influence may be as much about achieving...
...Fair enough. But is it really too much to ask athletes to make an effort to become informed, or to form an opinion on the controversies that will inevitably envelope the Beijing Games? "It seems like such an obvious answer to me," says Miranda. "Being part of the conversation doesn't cost a whole lot." Olympic athletes do have some spare time for a little reading, you know. "All young individuals should be aware of the situation, the circumstances in which they are becoming involved in," says John Carlos, the 1968 Olympic bronze-medalist whose Black Power salute...