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This is an institution that exists solely to promote the development of health, literacy, wealth and education in the poorest two-thirds of our world. They tackle debt-relief and malaria while the rest of us navel-gaze our way through the status quo. So in my mind it doesn't matter if Harvard academics now have an opportunity through the center to communicate their ideas to and explore new solutions with Third World leaders. It doesn't matter that hundreds of students work with, research for and attend workshops given by the center. It doesn't really matter...
...speeds in his Lincoln convertible, driving with one hand on the wheel and the other around a beer. He described the sex life of his bulls in intricate, ribald detail. He also, by his own account, spent time in the oak grove where his ancestors were buried. He would gaze down at the Pedernales River and ponder those things a rancher and a President must ponder...
...more than pointed satire-or, put in another way, they are less, much less. At heart, they, like his representations of shoes and easels, are pure physical objects that offer the happy promise of a bare, unmediated language of communication. They prove, perhaps, that a child's intuitive gaze may not be too far off the mark after...
During the debate, Bush stood to the moderator's right, facing his family and friends who were seated about twenty feet away. Gore stood stage left, his gaze finding his own family and supporters. No staffers were allowed backstage--there simply wasn't enough room...
...argument with some merit: The American electorate must be trusted to elect a president - so why not trust us to rip our collective gaze from the national pastime to the dry necessity of a debate? But while nobody in America wants to make debate avoidance a federal crime, there is surely something inherently embarrassing about living in a country where two major networks choose to ignore what can safely be called a major political event...