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Superior Court Judge William L. Downing, a parent of a Harvard Kennedy School graduate, said that he was glad that Souter did not feel the need to pander to the audience...
Talented DJs like VanMiddlesworth and Zisiadis consider the obligation to pander a good reason to avoid Harvard’s conventional party scene. “I DJed at a bunch of places around campus at the end of sophomore year and just realized that to do that you have to stay on top of what music people are listening to. I wasn’t very good at that and didn’t want to spend so much time listening to T-Pain,” said VanMiddlesworth. Now, though, “I basically have retreated...
However, Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, doesn't think the trial will have much consequence for the questionable doctors who are enlisted by celebrities when they can't get aboveboard practitioners to pander to their needs. "Even with those tough charges, the combination of extraordinary wealth, lavish lifestyle and doctors who operate on the fringes of their profession almost guarantees a replay at some point down the road," he says. "Medicine hasn't figured out how to weed out the fringe operators, and celebrities haven't figured out that...
...phrase emotional blackmail come to mind? In theory, an inspirational story about a child facing death by disease is no more or less manipulative than a thriller plot about a man who turns to revenge because his wife and kids were murdered. What matters is the tone: Does it pander to the situation or elevate it to coherent drama...
...Still, the producers of the musical, the Michigan-born Hutchins and Italian-German director Roberto Emmanuele, say they didn't want to create a tribute to Obama or pander to the crowd by playing up his star appeal. Instead, they aimed to tell the story of the people who were inspired by his message of change - themselves included. "This musical is not about politics but about the effect Obama has on people," Hutchins says. "Making the musical resembled Obama's story in a way. We had very little in the beginning, meager means, a meager budget ... Obama inspired...