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...heard only by those few who attend. The only record of the whole proceeding is a written transcript that must be purchased to be seen, or such reports as those few in physical attendance choose to make. The constitutional ideal of government-of-and-by-the-people is hollow when the people lack the real and practical means to see and hear and understand the proceedings for themselves...
...greedy bankers and corrupt politicians," he said. In Britain, where Morgan is still remembered as the former editor of the salacious tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror - and who was forced to resign after it published faked photographs - his tone of moral outrage might have rung a little hollow. But under the spell of BGT, a vast swath of Britons suppressed their congenital cynicism and concentrated on rooting for their favorites - and for Queen and country. (See TIME's video "Susan Boyle...
...Evidence” class consisted of two digital audio files, and a single question: “Of what is this evidence?” The first of the two recordings is particularly bizarre—an eery mash-up; distorted snatches of speech echoing over hollow instrumentals below. Of what is this evidence? Nesson posts the answers to his blog. Many are highly cryptic, even incomprehensible. Some include mash-ups of their own. Some are poems: “Of What is This Evidence?/Ought we, living underground, dare/To ask such questions of the Universe?/To search...
House: Kirkland Concentration: Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality Hometown: Sleepy Hollow, NY (heads do, in fact, roll) Ideal Date: A picnic dinner followed by a late night (skinny) dip in Walden Pond. What do you look for in a girl/guy: A feminist sensibility. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Look for the gaggle of unruly gay men and listen for Lady GaGa and I’ll be in there, somewhere. Your best pick up line: Wanna see me burn my bra? Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: That stylized flannel you?...
...Since being expelled in 1962 after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba has been excluded from the Organization of American States, the group of 34 nations that meets at the Summit of the Americas every five years. Obama’s conciliatory words at this very summit will ultimately ring hollow unless the U.S. ends its opposition to Cuba’s membership in the OAS. If America is truly committed to redefining its relationship with Cuba and its allies such as Venezuela and Nicaragua, then it needs to give Cuba a seat at the table...