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Full-Grown Humans, at least those not in the NBA, do not jump. It's not just that it's jarring and exhausting. It's one of those childish things people put away about the time they start paying taxes and stop singing in public...
Media messages will be tailored both ways: already, President Obama is doing network TV to broadcast messages wide, and online videos for a more intimate, fireside-chat connection. And as more people watch traditional TV on the tiny screen and online video on the big one, more will jump the boundaries. Collegehumor.com just debuted a show on MTV, while this spring ABC premieres In the Motherhood, a sitcom based on a webisode series...
...momentum on its side. After suffering a four game losing streak Harvard was led by junior Jeremy Lin in a stunning last-second victory over the Brown Bears (6-14, 0-6 Ivy) on Saturday. With 22 second-half points and 27 overall, Lin drew a foul on a jump shot just before the buzzer. He then hit the game winning foul shot to give Harvard a 64-63 advantage and renewed life in Ivy league play...
Israel's election and the Gaza conflict have revealed the scale of the challenge facing U.S. President Barack Obama in jump-starting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. Israeli voters tacked to the right, and the government that results from Tuesday's election will be, if anything, even less inclined than the current government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to conclude a two-state peace agreement with the Palestinian leadership. (Of course, the year of talks about talks between Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas failed to yield any progress.) Meanwhile, the Gaza war cemented the stature of Hamas...
...Jump-starting an Israeli-Palestinian peace process or simply preventing a further deterioration of the situation will demand a massive effort and new thinking on the part of the Obama Administration. As far as the Palestinians are concerned, progress would require a readiness by Obama to do something no U.S. Administration since that of President George H.W. Bush has done: throw Washington's weight behind positions at odds with those of the Israeli government. And few Palestinians are betting on Obama to turn up the heat on Israel. Instead, they're more likely to try to do so themselves...