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...Switzerland were more like America, in fact, there would be web-sites to help you design your resume for the booklet given to voters. Sooner or later, advising immigrants would be an off-year fallback for campaign consultants, who would plaster the sides of buses with advertisements like VOTE FOR ZLATKO CVTJAJ--NOT AS CROATIAN AS HE LOOKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get Elected as a Citizen | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...principle itself translates. At some imperceptible point in the middle of the movie, Jimmy Stewart's snooping shifts from being the forgivable voyeurism of a bored man waist-deep in plaster to the important surveillance of a concerned citizen. As soon as he and Grace Kelly convince themselves they've seen a murder, scruples are thrown to the wind...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Listening in the Dark | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...imaging." But he didn't. Nor did CBS say it had digitally inserted a virtual logo in the neon adscape behind him, obliterating an existing sign for NBC. In fact, it turns out CBS has used digital image-insertion technology ever since launching the Early Show in November, to plaster that program's logo all over its Manhattan neighborhood--at the entrance to Central Park, on the back of horse-drawn carriages, even on the side of the building that is its host. Last week media critics and competitors gave CBS a poke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Trick of the Eye | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...split the council into two separate groups. The first would be a unelected service organization to work with the administration for student services. There's a reason federal bureaucrats aren't subject to election: competency and political savvy are not necessarily related. No one should have to plaster their name across campus for the opportunity to lower phone rates. And what if elections became competitive, the fervent wish of the supporters of council downsizing? Do we really want to turn away students who have a desire to make Harvard a better place...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: The Council Conundrum | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...part of any radical political agenda." One wonders whether The Crimson remembersthe offensive onslaught of obscene and anti-religious posters that marked this October's "National Coming Out Day" celebration at Harvard, when coming out was given an undeniably political meaning. Radical gay activists, it seems, can plaster the Yard with profanity and pornography while avoiding a campus outcry--but when conservatives dare to poke gentle fun at this absurd display, we are accused of intolerance and hate-mongering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

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