Word: mattered
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...participating in the reading from Robert Fagles' new Odyssey that included Fagles and Jason Robards), it is still easy to be skeptical about the relevance of Greek tragedy, especially a very archaizing and formal one, to modern life, and thus to question the value of any such production, no matter how many risks it takes. But the remedy for the doubt is available to anyone willing to admit how exquisitely the work of Euripides, especially The Bacchae, frames the most complex moral questions we know...
...Enquirer, Coz has been out to prove the worthiness of tabloid journalism to American democracy. He has declared that his magazine will no longer publish stories or photos of manufactured events, though he admits the concept of an event's construction is itself open to interpretation as a matter of degree. (A post-modern editor!) He has written an op-ed piece for The New York Times which, he told me, was solicited from him by The Times, though the paper has a policy of not owning up to that publicly. And he has come to the K-School...
...events of the big world to him or her by highlighting what is important, not what is entertaining. That's a job for the tabloids. What's important, like state budgets, the spread of disease and urban planning, can be made interesting because these are the issues that matter to real people on an everyday basis. Not Bill Clinton's sexual exploits. Not the Kennedy's babysitter. Coz has won. America has lost. It's a tabloid world...
...Harvard does it in a very compassionate manner; whether it's called firing or people leaving on their own is a delicate matter," he adds...
...that the death penalty deters crime; we do know that with a fair system of appeals, it ends up costing taxpayers more than life imprisonment--using funds that could be put toward crime prevention. We do know that it tends to be administered prejudicially. And we do know, no matter how good DNA testing gets, that it inevitably, always, will end up in the killing of an innocent man or woman at the bloody hands of the state...