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...could be a very good thing. The partisans who hate the media for our perceived politics are a relatively small, vocal group. More widely damaging, in the age of authenticity, is phoniness-in this case, acting as if we were dispassionate marble gods. It's time to leave that Potemkin Olympus and admit that, like responsible citizens, we care about elections. And then prove that, like responsible professionals, we care about the truth more...
...rain as you'd expect to find during an average June-August period. According to French press reports, temperatures only reached seasonal averages around 10 times during those same three months, with highs frequently 10 to 20 degrees below normal. Little wonder the Seine-side version of a Potemkin beach - the annual Paris Plage - drew less people and shorter visits per person this year, or that its food, drinks, and ice cream vendors shut up shop reporting disappointing sales. And these weren't the only merchants affected by the weather...
...journalist Nibras Kazimi-have increased the probability of partition or civil war and installed a corrupt, Iran-leaning government of religious conservatives, which will undoubtedly remain in power when the new "permanent" government is formed. In Afghanistan, elections have brought narco-warlords to positions of significant power. Even the Potemkin elections in Saudi Arabia and Egypt resulted in the aggrandizement of religious extremists. There was the election-more a selection, really-of foulmouthed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran, who has turned out to be far more radical than the ruling mullahs anticipated. And now Hamas in Palestine...
...have a valid ID on you, they're going to run you off," he says. The object, both men agree, is to keep the homeless from begging and trying to park cars and generally make the city look bad in the eyes visitors and the media. But despite the Potemkin intent of the local authorities, homeless advocates in Detroit are generally supportive of the plan. Though he understands that the city wants people like him kept out of sight for the duration of the Super Bowl, ?Chicago? Jones says he's planning to be at the party. "Why not? They...
...magazine that rank colleges. Several of the articles in our November, 2003, “survey” of college admissions explain what’s wrong with the ranking process. In order to demonstrate the fallibility of rankings, without being just theoretical, we constructed a potemkin ranking which we then deconstructed. This was not meant, and cannot reasonably be read, as an attempt to say which college is better than which other...