Word: topicalism
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...seeking emotional common ground in the fact that both had recently lost their mothers. Clinton must have been disappointed by the cool response of Gates, who saw the subject as unduly personal. Gates, for his part, was put off that Clinton didn't engage him on his favorite topic, technology. When the golfing ended, the two men went their separate ways. Gates didn't take sides in the Clinton-Dole election a couple of years later. Clinton let his Justice Department pursue a potentially devastating antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft...
...State of the Union Address was the best show in town this week--if you knew who to watch. Clinton was his usual boring self, saying all the right things about all the right causes and avoiding the only topic which may actually affect the state of the Union in the immediate future. The only people he offended in his speech were cigarette makers, by calling for a federal suit against them, and Mark McGwire, by sitting Sammy Sosa next to the First Lady...
Allowing students to graduate without writing a thesis is a deviation from longstanding tradition. The thesis is a major piece of work that allows students to focus on one topic after spending four years taking courses in wide-ranging types of literature...
...English is not legit unless you write a 60-page paper," says Leora Bersohn '99, who is writing a thesis on the use of low language in the poems of Philip Larkin and Tony Harrison. "Instead, they only want you to write a thesis if you have some topic you are obsessed with...
...joke about this at conferences," he says. "Irresponsible talk, like 'We won't be around then.'" But by 1991, De Jager, a self-described "nobody" in the industry, had decided he would be around. Four years later, he was giving more than 85 lectures a year on the topic and posting regular updates to his site, the Web's first for Y2K warnings, www.year2000.com...