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...past month, Twitter has added a search box that gives you a real-time view onto the chatter of just about any topic imaginable. You can see conversations people are having about a presidential debate or the American Idol finale or Tiger Woods - or a conference in New York City on education reform. For as long as we've had the Internet in our homes, critics have bemoaned the demise of shared national experiences, like moon landings and "Who Shot J.R." cliff hangers - the folkloric American living room, all of us signing off in unison with Walter Cronkite, shattered into...
Radnich, Gary •sports scores are delivered on TV by while blood drips onto the shirt...
Samuel P. Huntington was not afraid to launch his ideas onto the center of the intellectual stage, even when they sparked controversy. But friends and family said they will remember the bespectacled political scientist for his gentle, reserved nature and commitment to academia. The preeminent scholar of national security and civil-military relations died of congestive heart failure and complications related to diabetes on Martha’s Vineyard in December. He was 81. Huntington, who taught at Harvard for 58 years before retiring in 2007, was a gentle, yet quietly serious, presence in the government department, where he left...
...knew how to lift his spirits. Though it was almost midnight and the temperature was sub-zero, Antoine hastily made his friend put on a jacket and run outside to the frozen Charles River. Amid the snow and ice, the two friends stepped cautiously onto the frozen river and back to its bank. Antoine died suddenly in late December of last year. Those who knew Antoine said they remembered his vivacity, charisma, and empathy. “If anything really characterizes Clarel, it was how intensely he loved people,” said Antoine’s girlfriend of three...
...days of arguing about a lightweight brown sneaker that had been lobbed at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as he spoke at Cambridge University earlier this year, the verdict came with an air of denouement. On Tuesday, German biomedical research student Martin Jahnke, 27, who had tossed his footwear onto the stage during Wen's speech in protest over China's human-rights record, was found not guilty of a public order offense by the Cambridge Magistrates' Court...