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...Only when there are implications outside Harvard can you ever get this attention,” says Chopra. “The movement for cable TV is not going to stir up anyone at The Washington Post...
...anthology of left-wing essays critical of Harvard, and now research director of the Harvard Trade Union program. “Still, people say the media is very critical of institutions, but they’re actually quite complacent unless you yourself develop a movement. They will very rarely stir things up themselves...
...size price tags, but Wozniak had been tinkering with a new design, and his computer was different. It wasn't much to look at--just a bunch of chips screwed to a piece of plywood--but it was small, cheap and easy to use, and Jobs had noticed the stir it caused when they took it to a local computer club. "He said, 'We'll make it for 20 bucks, sell it for 40 bucks!'" Wozniak remembers. "I kind of didn't think we'd do it." Jobs came up with the name, inspired by an orchard in Oregon where...
...Rumsfeld, pretty good indeed. Day Three of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was all about control. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saddam Hussein may be losing control of his country; at the same time, U.S. forces took control of some important oilfields in southern Iraq. Meanwhile, U.S. Marines caused a minor stir when they raised the U.S. flag over the Iraqi port Umm Qasr - while the U.S. is, in fact, taking control of Iraq, it doesn't want to be seen as, um, occupying Iraq. Just liberating it. So the flag came back down...
...CHANCE, and were ordered by mall security guards to remove the shirts or leave. The lawyer refused, and was charged with trespassing. At high schools across the country, some students were threatened with suspension if they cut classes in order to participate in antiwar demonstrations. The incidents caused a stir, but were insignificant compared with the damage that the Ashcroft Justice Department has inflicted on American freedom since 9/11--a zealot's agenda of illegal detentions, denials of due process and invasions of privacy. If the war on terrorism is open-ended, that means "emergency" measures to combat terrorism...