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...started swimming as part of my rehab therapy,” the former volleyball player said. “They wanted to give me a new medium to work out in and I immediately loved it, even though I was swimming laps in the heated pool with the elderly at the beginning...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Water, Harvard's Unexpected Star Thrives | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Facebook profiles have long been a medium of self-expression for the site’s users. But what happens when self-expression crosses into the realm of hate speech? Created by a user named “Variable Variable,” a Facebook group using an obscenity to denounce Islam in its title had attracted nearly 850 members as of 6 p.m. yesterday. The group’s description begins by stating that “The Quran contains many lies and threats. Islam is false, no god exists, and someone should say that loud and clear...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Facebook Group Sparks Uproar | 9/14/2007 | See Source »

...while the medium used to announce candidacies may be changing, the message is about the same as it was the day humans began rejecting clubbing in favor of persuasion as a way to seek positions of leadership. For the most part, it always includes three key points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Announce for President | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

...creations as newscasts and ads and employing visual effects like upside-down pictures and tilted sets to appear to defy gravity. Comedy is lying done amusingly, and Kovacs knew that TV--which purported to show all but hid everything beyond the outline of the box--was a divine medium for lies. Kovacs would have been a natural in the age of YouTube; instead he made TV into HimTube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 17 Shows That Changed TV | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...plane survivors on a not-quite-deserted island, a secretive international organization and a monster made of smoke--Lost only begins with the 60 minutes you see on TV. Its mysteries, clues and literary-historical allusions demand research, repeated viewing, freeze-framing and endless online discussions. And in a medium in which executives assume that viewers will flee anything that remotely challenges them, Lost proves that millions of people will support a difficult, intelligent, even frustrating story--as long as you blow the right kind of smoke at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 17 Shows That Changed TV | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

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