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...populist superstar of Fox News has made a refrain of predicting that government policies are leading to disaster - dark, ruinous, blood-in-the-streets kind of disaster. Pausing for a 17-minute speech rebutting his critics for calling him "dangerous" and "crazy," he took out the block-tower game. On opposite sides of the tower were written the words solution and problem, taxpayer and children. Then he spent much of the hour critiquing the plan, all the while pulling pieces from the wobbling tower and stacking them on top. (Read an interview with Glenn Beck...
What unites Beck's disparate themes is a sense of siege. On March 13, he served up a kind of fear combo platter - war, chaos, totalitarianism, financial ruin - with the 9/12 Project, a tearful call to viewers to rediscover the common purpose they felt after 9/11. In 2001, that common purpose involved cable-news talkers' dialing down the us-vs.-them shtick for a day or two; now Beck urged viewers to reject the notion that "they" have all the power. "They don't surround us," he declared. "We surround them...
...performing in castles, and his love for Bach.1. Fifteen Minutes: You met fellow band member Mike Stroud when you were both students at Skidmore. Do you think your experience as a college student will influence what you choose to perform at Harvard?Evan Mast: Not really, I mean we kind of have had a lot of time since college. Mike dropped out after two years, because he wasn’t super into it. I don’t think about college much anymore, especially not when I’m putting together stuff for a show...
...with people’s passion for him. Shaq often offers tickets to the first person who can find him in a particular location—“tag me and say yur twit u hv 20 min.” Both punny and generous? You are too kind, Shaq. Then again, maybe I am fascinated with Shaq’s Twitter because it offers a glimpse into the daily affairs of a “celebrity.” But I’m not sure this is it either. I don’t read John Mayer?...
...southern town of Irpinia, have often been left in limbo for years, with unfulfilled government promises of reconstruction. The sight of new homes built for those who lost theirs in the L'Aquila quake - even if they might not have the charm of those destroyed - would add a different kind of beauty to the bel paese...