Word: topicalism
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...course, people should not meet without reason. But for the Faculty to announce that there is "insufficient business" after years of inaction on overdue reforms suggests a disturbing laziness in identifying "business" that needs to be tended to. The list of topics that the Faculty could have discussed in yesterday’s scheduled 90 minute meeting is plenty long: mandatory course evaluations of professors, calendar reform, pedagogy, or even as the final report of general education is written, a discussion on the implementation of general education, a topic which has been overlooked amid squabbling over particular requirements...
...viable option. The President is now (finally) open to new options as he seeks to craft “a new way forward.” Whether the White House will listen to the ISG report and other suggestions remains to be seen, but at least debate on the topic is unfolding...
...Bush in the cross hairs, the Democrats who take over the armed services committees - Carl Levin in the Senate and Ike Skelton in the House - plan aggressive oversight hearings to investigate Bush missteps in the conduct of the war. And force levels in Iraq will also be a fierce topic of debate. Bush is mulling plans to increase the 140,000 troops there in order to launch surge operations against insurgents in and around Baghdad. Key Democrats like Levin and Sen. Joseph Biden, who takes over the Foreign Relations Committee, adamantly oppose a force increase. Levin favors a phased withdrawal...
Dancing! Feasting! Costuming! Masking! Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the bestselling Nickled and Dimed, turns her keen eye on the topic of group exuberance, in her forthcoming book Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Holt; January 10). Ehrenreich argues that Mardi Gras-type behavior is vital to human behavior, and that Americans just don't do it enough, even on Christmas and New Year's. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke (exuberantly) with Ehrenreich...
...Sk8terboi” by Avril Lavigne. Avril is really great. I hear that she’s modeling as a sandblasted, deliciously perfect, white-washed model for the Chanel company now. All that after making a killing off of selling pre-packaged Hot Topic lifestyles to millions of young teenagers? Now that’s subversive! 2. “Jealousy” by Paris Hilton. Paris Hilton is a total freedom fighter. All the rumors are true: you don’t need hard work, beauty, or even talent to make it big. And honestly, isn?...