Word: topicalism
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...encompassing topic of Star Wars sometimes overshadows the beauty of the braided Queen. Natalie A. Lester '01 contacted one stalker's Internet service provider when he wouldn't stop writing her. "One time there was this little boy really obsessed with Star Wars, not [with] her, and he added me to his 'Star Wars fan club' e-mail list," Lester remembers. "[He] kept sending me all his info on the movies until I begged him to take me off his list...
...first-years in agony out there--especially those of you deciding this week about advanced standing--don't bypass Folk and Myth as a concentration simply because it sounds flaky. First of all, it makes for a great conversation topic in interviews. As a department, it's also small and intimate, and as a study, it's actually fun. And as for a future career? It's doesn't matter what you concentrate in, so long as you enjoy...
...most of my career I worked on race and ethnic relations," he says. "I then became interested in the topic of first names. It hit me as an interesting social phenomenon...
Candidates need to speak up. If they're reluctant, then they ought to be asked. Vice President Al Gore '69 has been strangely silent on this topic. Not that he bears the sole blame; he has had only one challenger and that challenger is losing ground fast. Gore has no desire to expend valuable political energy on this issue. After all, the environment is a hot-button topic that polarizes party radicals on both sides of the fence...
...specific policy that's become a hot topic recently is the city's "condo-conversion" ordinance...