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...IRONY OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL AGE is how a plethora of choices has served to separate and isolate us. We have become electronic and ideological shut-ins. Nowhere is this willful know-nothingism more apparent than in the current political quagmire, in which candidates and their rabid supporters ferociously cleave to their ideological realities. It's not only on Election Day that most of us will decide we don't care what our neighbors think. As the U.S.'s pre-emptive war in Iraq has taught us to ask: What neighbors? The hell with them...
...we’re kind of down the middle with our personal political affiliation,” he says. “We tried to do the honest thing, the more emotionally and intellectually honest thing—that most people, unless you’re just a complete rabid partisan, [have had] mixed feelings about where America’s place is in the world in the last three years...
...right, so maybe I haven’t yet sated your rabid fandom. Maybe you expected more. Michael Jordan, after all, has not yet signed up with his North Carolina alumni e-mail account...
With an aggressive start and more than two hundred rabid fans in attendance, the No. 17 Crimson field hockey team (6-4, 2-0 Ivy) attempted to put Northeastern (10-2) in the doghouse. The No. 10 Huskies, however, riding high on a two-game win streak during which they scored 12 goals, refused to be leashed, shutting out Harvard...
...that the Swift Boat controversy reached a rabid apogee--that would be the day a Bush campaign lawyer resigned because of his ties to the Swifties, and Max Cleland made the stagy delivery of a protest letter to the Bush ranch--a woman named Elba Nieves stood at a town meeting in Philadelphia and told John Kerry that she had recently been laid off. The candidate proceeded to ask her a series of questions. She answered with quiet dignity. She had worked in a ribbon factory for four years. She said the company was having trouble keeping up with foreign...