Word: interestingness
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For Americans who are used to seeing—or, judging by ratings, not seeing—their aspiring leaders interviewed on policy questions by stern news anchors, guest appearances on talk shows and comedy programs are often a more interesting and sometimes more informative alternative.
Hopefully, voters will not simply vote for a candidate because he or she has appeared on a particular TV show, but rather will be motivated to seriously reconsider politics with a little less apathy and resentment. Most Americans don’t get to meet their politicians, and the television...
A program that would waive tuition for third-year students at Harvard Law School who commit to working five years in public interest law received an enthusiastic first response—far more so than its optimistic proponents expected. Over 110 first-year students participated in a non-binding sign...
“I thought the discussion about the relative impacts of crops on biodiversity was very interesting, but I thought the solution proposed was lacking from both a humanitarian and a pragmatic perspective,” Harvard graduate student Kaveri Rajaraman said.
The life of a Hollywood producer is full of bizarre encounters with belligerent actors, eccentric directors, and hard-nosed executives, which makes for some odd-ball stories. Such stranger-than-fiction tales delighted readers in producer Art Linson’s 2002 memoir “What Just Happened?: Bitter...