Word: soapboxed
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...their newspaper," says Matchett, nodding toward Mitchell and Stutchbury's offices. "Most of the time the paper has a clearly enunciated line on the issue," he says. "Occasionally there's a twist in an issue, but it all gets debated out." If the leader is the paper's soapbox, the opinion page is its sparring ring. Choosing columnists and commentators to spark or review national debates, page editor Tom Switzer says he runs his choices past the editors, who "sometimes have an editorial angle they would like reflected on the opinion page." Surrounded by stacks of journals and back issues...
...consciousness of Everyman out of his own idiosyncrasies. His relaxed, chatty raps are littered with arcane references to specific British teenage slang and culture, yet the first album sold 130,000 copies on the Continent. He may represent "the streets," but he's not standing on a class soapbox. His neighborhood was a place where, as he puts it, "the sons and daughters of rich business people mix with sons and daughters of the people on the local estate, and they all spend most of their teens smoking weed and trying to find love or sex." He adds simply...
...Soapbox Derby: A New Works Festival,” which opened this weekend accompanied by apparently no campus publicity whatsoever, is a collection of five mildly funny comic sketches on the topic of public speaking. Interspersed with the sketches are a series of vaguely political, mildly funny addresses...
...know Crimson writers get up on their soapbox every so often and demand that you come out to support Harvard athletes more often, but this weekend really is an opportunity you might have only once in your college career. The men’s team travels to the NCAA Tournament for the third straight time, having lost in the first round each of the last two years, and for the third time to be the charm they just might need to have a crowd that will rival the large contingent that the Black Bears are sure to bring to Albany...
...Romance Writer’s Report, unusually named “Tiger Beat.” Pottinger makes it clear that she inherited the name, that she has nothing to do with it, and that it has nothing to do with the teen pin-up rag. This soapbox, from which she says she may retire imminently, allowed her to respond publicly to a Publisher’s Weekly round-up of popular romance novelists. In a piece entitled “Write Fiercely, Harvard” she balked at an editor’s smug and incredulous announcement that...