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...From a coach’s standpoint, you tell him to sit down. But you’re just psyched that you have a guy like that...
...University also, according to Fisher, is also not handling the situation well. Fisher says Harvard should approach the issue from an educational standpoint. The standoff, he says, gives the University an opportunity to teach students about social change...
Such practices give full weight to the notion of media as institution. As judgment is passed from a standpoint as removed from experience as it is mediated by, well, media, one worries that much cannot be seen in the mirror. The quotidian fabric of facts which is the foundation not simply for media’s actual operation but of its very claim to authority is one such. How plebian these foundational questions seem; how ordinary! Yet it is very dangerous when an institution becomes sufficiently myopic that its own cryptic doings and intricate rituals are allowed to obscure...
...Well, I think coal, from a political standpoint, is important partly for the consumers because it is one of the most affordable sources of energy we've got. Secondly there's a very large supply out there. We've got huge coal reserves in this country. And we know where they are, and we know how to develop them relatively cheaply. We've got the infrastructure there in terms of transport and so forth. At the same time, there are clearly a number of areas where we've gotten a number of jobs connected with the coal industry. People...
...most of the audience it seemed, the awards presentations were just a means of killing time between performances. The speeches were uniformly bland and unexciting, as group after group engaged in a contest to see who could kiss more corporate butt. Perhaps this was necessary from a practical survival standpoint, since most of these artists belong to unstable independent labels, but it made for extremely boring listening. Even Dave Holmes seemed to notice this, and repeatedly apologized for wearing a coat and tie to the event, saying it made him look like “an asshole stockbroker...