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...journalist Mark Danner has described systematic torture in American detention facilities as a scandal that “survived its disclosure.” Danner’s elegant phrase points to the total failure of hierarchal accountability in the wake of revelations of abuse, and it suggests our complicity in this failure. We express our revulsion at the Abu Ghraib photos, while averting our eyes from the paper trail leading conclusively upwards from there. This disconnect—whereby we vilify those who carry out repellent policies while bowing deferentially to those who devise them—was vividly...
...person who is condemning it,” she says. Waterman says that she would consider herself a pacifist. At the same time, she says she believes that war can be necessary as “the price of freedom.” It’s a trite phrase, she says, but she thinks there is truth in it.IN FULL REGALIA Waterman’s father flies up from Virginia to accompany her to Friday’s military ball. Waterman and her father have always been very close, but her decision to join ROTC surprised him. It seemed...
...that phrase, “walled garden,” has complicated connotations, both historically and in the context of media outlets. Online, it has come to suggest monopoly and content lock-in (that is, practices designed to maintain even unhappy customers by constructing barriers to exit) as much as it has privacy: America Online (AOL) was referred to in the mid 90s as a walled garden because they denied their subscribers access to the Internet at large and denied outsiders access to the content created within. This made it difficult for AOL users to leave and enjoy the fruits...
...Blendon, the public opinion expert, said that the use of the phrase “in general” in the polling question meant that results did reflect students’ impressions of the Summers-FAS dispute...
JOHNSON: There's this category that a guy at M.I.T. came up with. He coined this phrase "lead users." It's not quite right to call them early adopters because they're even kind of a step beyond that. They're the 1% or 2% of your kind of core, devoted fans that are not just buying your technology first, but they're figuring out all of the things it can do that you never thought of doing. To be able to sort of reach out and talk to that core part of the audience generating new ideas--that...