Word: ism
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...Winthrop House’s annual “Debauchery.” By 11:30 p.m., people are already being turned away from the door, including Benjamin M. Kultgen ’08 and his friends. “This is setting a new standard for Harvard gestapo-ism,” yells Kultgen. Is he drunk? “No,” insists Kultgen. “He’s only had ten shots,” adds a friend. Others who waited to buy tickets were also disappointed. By 10 p.m., 600 tickets had been...
...Rooftops in the old city are crowded with spectators; a tin roof buckles under their weight. Police have closed down the streets; Afghan National Army soldiers guard intersections - Ashura rituals have often attracted Shi'ism's most violent sectarian foes, as the violence that has in recent days wracked Najaf in Iraq, and Karachi and Peshawar in Pakistan, where 14 were killed on Sunday in a suicide bombing. But here in Kabul, the only blood spilled is that collecting at the feet of the participants. "We are all Muslim. It is not important whether we pray with open hands...
...ideology of scared media is me-too-ism: straining to show the audience you like what it likes, be it Harry Potter or Donald Rumsfeld. (He's tough! He's funny! He's a sex symbol! The Philadelphia Inquirer dubbed him a "stud muffin.") With the worsening of Iraq, however, coverage became more assertive, and after Hurricane Katrina, reporters found they could question the Administration without being struck dead. With the "civil war" fight--as with erstwhile stud muffin Rumsfeld--the momentum has reversed. It's less important what the press is calling the war than that the White House...
...course, all this proves is that me-too-ism knows no party. NBC took its public step only after Bush's midterm thumpin'. Middle America may have been led by Cronkite, but now the reins are firmly in the other hand. In a perfect world, the media would be led by the facts, and the audience by its own mind. But if the public is giving the news permission to be more, well, reality-based, then lead on, folks, lead...
...What’s your favorite House-ism that you’ve written...