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...positions and have begun to sound very much unlike their predecessors or even themselves just a few years ago. In the last few months, the two candidates have increasingly displayed their proclivity to say anything, do anything to please the voters. While such malleability is not necessarily a new phenomenon in the American elections, what sets this election apart is the fact that the volatile circumstances under which the election is being held are unique...
Happy Hour is a fine phenomenon, one which is wholly unfamiliar to the college crowd. We go out to drink at 11 p.m., the earliest, and the days of the week on which we do so are normally limited to Thursday through Saturday. That just isn't so for the working world. In the nine-to-five grind, where there are only vocational men and women, the drink is a daily necessity. Centrum every morning. Budweiser every evening...
...putting her own show on a new path, ignoring sensationalism in favor of "positive" subject matter. Her No. 1 ratings took a dip, while the Ricki Lakes and Jerry Springers became, briefly, the rage. In the end, however, Winfrey proved once again to be a trendsetter. The sleazy talk phenomenon soon peaked: politicians complained, viewers grew bored, shows were canceled--and Winfrey, now in her 10th year on national TV, is still on top, drawing 9 million viewers...
...hundred and three years ago, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner made his famous elegiac announcement that America no longer had a frontier. Turner was interested in the frontier less as a place than as a sociological phenomenon. "The West was another name for opportunity," he wrote; to his mind it had been the means by which the nation delivered on its promise of a chance of advancement for all citizens. It was the possible loss of this, not of open range, that worried...
This disparity is not a new phenomenon. Almost 15 years ago, the Board of Overseers and the Corporation, Harvard's two governing boards, put together a committee to examine the tenure processes at the different schools...