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...Justice says their goal was "to open a debate, raise questions, something done regularly by cinema, literature and contemporary art." Yet YouTube is unlike any of those other media. There is no buying your ticket, no shifting in your seat with popcorn in hand; no stiff new book to crack open; no grappling with an artist's meaning in solemn galleries. Framed by neither the walls of a cinema or museum, nor the written page, YouTube is a kind of non-context, an ether from which one draws images designed for rapid, repeated consumption. Content of great value mixes with...
Then, making a move in the final 500 meters, the boat closed more than a length of distance on Cornell finishing in forth by just a seat...
...It’s pretty tough—it was really disappointing,” said Jeff Overington, five-seat of the varsity lightweight eight. “But I think it’s impressive that Harvard has such a good record. Most other teams have good and bad performances at Eastern Sprints, and Harvard has consistently been really good. But it’s disappointing to not continue that historical performance...
...reaction was not due to partisan concern - as when South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson was hospitalized with bleeding in the brain, shortly after the Democrats won control of the Senate in 2006 and the party feared losing his seat and control of the Senate. If anything were to happen to Kennedy, his seat would remain securely in Democratic hands, since a temporary replacement would be appointed by Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Deval Patrick until the next elections. The alarm felt by Democrats had little to do with the Senate's balance of power, but rather from contemplating for the first time...
Ahmad Chalabi is nothing if not indefatigable. The dapper Iraqi multimillionaire who was instrumental in pressing the U.S. to invade Iraq - and viewed by many in Washington as the presumptive leader of a future Iraqi government - failed to win a seat in his country's parliament in 2005, and came under suspicion in Washington of passing secrets to Iran (although no charges were ever filed in this respect). Still, he bounced back, and was tapped last November to run a committee tasked with improving the delivery of basic services such as water and electricity in Baghdad. The post required coordinating...