Word: platformization
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Meet James Moreland, the only cross-dressing punk-rocker presidential candidate once married to trash diva Courtney Love (or "the punk-rock Rush Limbaugh," as he calls her). He's campaigning under his stage name, Falling James, and his platform is pretty simple. He wants to give the U.S. to the American Indians and move everyone else to Greenland...
...news, the book is fascinating. "The growth of Nightline paralleled the development of satellite broadcasting; by linking newsmakers worldwide, the show could not only report on, but often become a participant in, major news events. Controversial figures, from Ferdinand Marcos to Lani Guinier, used the show as a platform to defend themselves; others, like former baseball executive Al Campanis, were undone by it." If the book lacks larger consideration of Nightline's place in the TV news universe, it does offer a fine appreciation of Koppel's interviewing technique. A highlight: his elegant response to an evasive Iraqi diplomat: "Ambassador...
...their successful bid for president and vice president of the Undergraduate Council this spring, candidates Robert M. Hyman '98 and Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 ran on a platform of revitalized student government, actively pushing the administration to be responsive to undergraduate concerns...
Hyman's victory on a platform of activism mirrored the success of PUCC's rainbow coalition of student organizations. Events this year seem to indicate that PUCC is not a fringe group of radicals, as its detractors claim, but a broad-based coalition whose agenda has appeal across the College...
Members of both PUCC and HSF say they expect to recruit people to run on their platform next fall in the council's general elections...