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...former governor of Alaska is still peddling her mega-selling memoir, Going Rogue, and racking up lucrative speaking engagements. Now she's adding a revenue stream as a paid analyst on the conservative national soapbox. Even before she made her Jan. 12 debut with Bill O'Reilly, the latest round of America's favorite parlor game, What Does Sarah Want?, was in full swing. Is Palin's television gig a sign that she is abandoning her political career and all 2012 aspirations? Or is Fox News meant to serve as the ideal launching pad for an eventual presidential bid fueled...
...years--telling the common man that politicians are against them or that the political process is a farce. The difference today is that politicians no longer need to broaden their appeal beyond a committed, activist base. And they know more precisely than ever what the base wants. The soapbox, which became the sound bite, thanks to radio and television, has gone interactive. If you say it today, the audience will come to you. "There is an interactive element to this. I spend enough time online to figure out what people are thinking," explains Grayson. "I think what the Internet...
...that of former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who used repeated stall tactics to drag out his proceedings for three years before eventually dying in custody. Many of the problems stemmed from the decision by the tribunal to allow Milosevic to defend himself - he used the court as a soapbox, delivering rambling political speeches. Karadzic, who is also representing himself, is now doing his best to sabotage his own trial and undermine the legitimacy of the tribunal. (See pictures from 2006 of the last Albanian community in Serbia...
What, then, was the story? Anyone with the slightest amount of technical sophistication can send e-mails to hundreds of undergraduates alleging misbehavior of members of our community. The Crimson staff has revealed that it will be that person’s soapbox and amplifier...
...last day in Lahore was Aug. 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day. As midnight approached, Pakistanis, primarily of the lower and middle classes, flooded the city’s streets, jamming them with bumper-to-bumper traffic. People sat atop motorbikes and stuck their heads out of soapbox car windows, dancing and singing, drunk on patriotism. As I stared out the car window, I wondered what these people had to celebrate. Sixty-two years after Pakistan was founded, its future remains uncertain, and frankly, it is completely out of the hands of these average people...