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...think they provide a service to students and parents, assuming that they are intelligent enough to digest the data and accept it for what it is,” Morse said. “This is one tool in the admissions process...
...late, hidden cameras have become quite the thing in Indian journalism. Tehelka, an Internet news site that later became a newspaper, pioneered subterfuge when it launched in May 2000, using secret cameras to expose corruption in cricket and the armed forces. Since then, grainy videos have become a staple tool of Indian investigative reporting. But until recently, editors have been careful to back the use of electronic trickery with a claim to be acting in the public interest. Founded 10 months ago, India TV dispensed with such piety, filming politicians, holy men and now celebrities in the bedroom. Chairman Rajat...
Ideally, defamiliarization can be an act of transcendence, making commonplace human rituals nearly sublime by elevating them to the realm of art. However, defamiliarization worked both ways, Boym argued. As a tool of Stalinist propaganda, art could lend a sense of wonder and exaltation, as in the harvest painting that declared the Stalinist slogan, “Life has become better. Life has become merrier.” The actual subject of the painting, a communal dinner in rural Russia, would itself have been unremarkable. But when metamorphosed into a massive genre painting as a monument to Stalinist benevolence, such...
...opening statements, HPU chair and debate chair Vivek G. Ramaswamy ’07 asked the debaters questions about the predicted decrease in the working-age to retirement-age population ratio, as well as the value of private accounts, and in what way social security can be a tool of redistributive social justice...
...Semel, 62, wants to take the next leap, building the mythical bridge between the Internet and the entertainment world by putting Yahoo!'s stamp on everything from music to movies. The ultimate tool: streaming video, which allows websites to deliver content--from movies and TV shows to live news footage, celebrity interview clips and even three-dimensional representations of new cars with simulated test drives. In addition to The Apprentice, Yahoo! already streams regular clips from Entertainment Tonight, and has done a deal to webcast the first episode of Kirstie Alley's Fat Actress later this month. It will also...