Word: topicalism
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...really a transformative experience,” he says. “Peter Sellars [who directed Children of Herakles] is one of the most amazing people I’ve ever met. He just gets it. He’s extremely knowledgeable on every topic of conversation and I feel really blessed to have...
...week of the sit-in. That changed with the visits of high-profile labor leaders and politicians, and a sense on the part of journalists that the occupation was going to last. Soon, the story was everywhere, and Times opinion columnist Bob Herbert dedicated two whole columns to the topic. “Looking at it now, it looks like wall-to-wall media,” says McKean. “But we worked for every inch...
...less involved with these particular causes, extreme political bents don’t factor in as much. According to Rivera, living with Adelman and Jobbins and hearing so many conversations about Israel and Palestine makes the rest of the blocking group “tired” of the topic. “We would probably have stronger opinions if we didn’t have to listen to them all the time,” Rivera chuckles...
...attacked America; if al-Qaeda ever got hold of Saddam's weapons, the future didn't bear thinking about. The afternoon after the attacks, Wolfowitz, in conference calls with other officials, started voicing suspicions that Iraq might somehow have been involved. Within hours, he was lobbying Cheney on the topic, arguing--a central plank of the neoconservative analysis--that Iraq was also somehow behind the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. Within days, James Woolsey, once Clinton's head of the CIA but who had joined the neoconservatives on Iraq, was dispatched by the Pentagon to find...
Students’ perceived access to information about sexual assault has increased markedly in the last two years. In the most recent survey, 82 percent reported receiving information on sexual assault and rape, more than any other health-related topic and a ten percent increase from...