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Director David Esbjornson shrewdly recognizes this relevance and elucidates the play’s ideas for a modern audience through his effective and restrained use of video footage and dream sequences. While such contemporary touches to a firmly historical show might risk losing the substance in the spectacle, Esbjornson is careful to only use these effects to enhance the material and maintain the integrity of the play...
...This raised a question in the minds of the court's majority. If freedom of speech protects the right of rich individuals to use television to distribute their political views during election season, does the same right extend to rich groups - like businesses, labor unions, the NRA, the ACLU or Citizens United? (See the top 10 moments of the 2008 election...
...clash of worldviews. (For Justices Anthony Kennedy and John Paul Stevens, the dueling authors of the main opinions, these clashes have become so predictable and so dramatized, they should think about starting a cable-TV show.) "The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it," trumpeted Kennedy. Stevens responded, "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation." The rhetoric was so florid, it was hard to keep in mind that they...
...keep pace with the Internet revolution. "Italy's political culture is far removed from new technology," says Luca Conti, 34, a blogger in the coastal city of Senigallia. "They're not even focused yet on how to control the Internet since they haven't even figured out how to use it to their advantage." Case in point: more than 100,000 people attended an anti-Berlusconi rally in Rome last month that was organized on Facebook, but the top opposition politicians snubbed the event. Conti says the country's leaders - left, right and center - are still focused solely on reaching...
...library project—which required extensive work from the Learning Through Libraries volunteers on most afternoons—consisted of not only covering and cataloging the books for check-out, but also teaching students how to use and appreciate the library system and showing teachers how to use the library in the classroom...