Word: mr
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...perhaps because Affleck took a long time to make a serious movie after Good Will Hunting (while he was saving the world, co-star Matt Damon made The Talented Mr. Ripley), people pegged him as an action star, not a thinker. And when he went gallivanting around in camel-hair coats and Bentleys and had news of his engagement broken on Primetime Live, people figured he was full of himself. It takes only a tiny shift in perception before everything a person does can be misconstrued. Just like that, the assets Affleck had relied on became liabilities. His spirited antics...
...Politics has never been a gentle game. As far back as 1895, satirist Finley Peter Dunne's fictional saloonkeeper Martin Dooley observed that women, children and prohibitionists would do well to stay out of it, because "politics ain't beanbag." But surely, even Mr. Dooley could never have imagined a day would come when a mere seventh grader could be swift-boated...
...academics—especially those responsible for President Ahmadinejad’s invitation to Columbia—should not take their precious privileges for granted. Nearly all universities depend heavily on federal disbursements. And if universities persist with such controversial publicity stunts, then, some time in the future, Mr. Hunter’s sentiment may find sufficient agreement in Congress. Prudence would dictate not to rouse a sleeping giant just to be controversial...
...Political speech in America, however, receives protection from any legal ban as well. Yet this simple fact does not nullify Mr. Hunter’s legislative logic or the claims of the Academy’s critics...
...universities did not so regularly insist on pushing the envelope with radical and often anti-American politics, perhaps their speech and actions would not deserve careful and critical scrutiny. But, if Mr. Hunter’s legislation is a portent of things to come, perhaps this is—like so many of our own grade-school pedagogues had warned—a lesson better learned the hard...