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...Rock. But Rock made his his serious point with humor; Cosby made his serious point using seriousness. Comics who get all grave can be a drag. Nobody really wants to hear Seinfeld's take on Halliburton unless it's accompanied by a laughtrack. Also, Cosby's comments deriding non-standard English seemed particularly off-base. Without non-traditional language, we wouldn't have Public Enemy rapping "Don't Believe The Hype," Diana Ross singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," or Bob Marley declaring he had "So Much Things to Say." Without slang, we wouldn't have the blues poems...
...slang, rapper/would-be actor Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. When I saw the show, I thought there was something profoundly appealing about seeing two different generations of black entertainers performing together in a classic play. Cosby, in his speech, declared that blacks should hold each other to a higher standard. Working together, and not just getting each other worked up, may be a good start...
...undertaken by grubby business people . . . charlatans who advertise." The facts, Freilich says, are that since August '02 he's analyzed the scans of more than 5,000 people. One in 20 had abnormalities needing "immediate follow-up," including more than 100 cancers. He could make more money in a standard radiography practice, he adds, "but it so happens I've become addicted to this...
...broadcaster is unintelligible to most Chinese, so its journalists enjoy slightly more reporting leeway. In one of his first moves, Terenzio called a meeting to stress that "reporters never say what they think, only what they know" and to urge that all government statements be attributed to their source, standard practice in the West. Within two weeks, "they were practically attributing the weather report," Terenzio says. "I had to tell them to cool...
...whole host of issues are related to the academic community, but not directly,” Cameron Winklevoss said. “We’re supposed to hold students to a higher standard. We wouldn’t have approached anyone on the street to complete this website. As a Harvard student, you ought to be held to a higher standard, and the Ad Board wasn’t prepared to do that...