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Loker will also feature a new sound system and a soapbox--an open microphone for students to "announce a dance or start a revolution," Engel said...
...large segment of the Internet community." Clearly the Justices, like many newbies before them, were swept up in the global reach and boundless potential of the medium. "Any person with a phone line can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox," Stevens observed...
...which helps explain why every muffler shop, pizzeria and hardware store seems to have one, as well as every crank. And that is precisely what gives parents pause when they wonder what strange ideas and people their children may encounter on the electronic frontier. As a readily accessible soapbox, the Net attracts the same groups that have always tacked pamphlets on grocery store and college bulletin boards and placed tiny ads in the backs of journals to get the word out. As disturbing as the quasi-philosophical blather on the Heaven's Gate website may be, it never got much...
...readily accessible soapbox, the Net attracts the same groups that have always tacked pamphlets on grocery store and college bulletin boards and placed tiny ads in the backs of journals to get the word out. As disturbing as the quasi-philosophical blather on the Heaven's Gate website may be, it never got much attention until the networks and Internet publishers (including Pathfinder) sought it out as legitimate news in the wake of the deaths. As far as anyone has been able to determine, the Heaven's Gate cult used the Net mainly to memorialize itself, or to generate freelance...
There is no evidence, I'll admit, that I was under consideration for Inaugural poet in the first place. The White House headhunters could have missed the long narrative poems in this space about each of the political conventions. They might have been unaware that perched on another soapbox, I have long provided weekly verse so focused on current affairs that I've rhymed Dole with "liberal mole" and "preppie troll" (during the Forbes challenge, of course) and, in reference to his delivery of the Republican reply to the President's State of the Union message, "as limp as sauteed...