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...ability to leave these “conversations” whenever we want has another, more sinister dimension. Whenever someone disagrees with that intelligent comment we posted on Huffington Post, we can simply browse away. The idea of persuasive speech, conversation with a point to it that advances one viewpoint over another, is increasingly remote. No one argues anymore, or, if they do, it’s about things like who deserves to pick up that peanut on the common-room floor. The upshot of modern communication methods is that you get to choose whom you talk to, and people...
...referencing the Millennium Challenge account, which provides billions of dollars to African countries with sound governing and economic practices as a means of incentivizing sustainable economic development in developing African countries. Audience members said Frazer’s comments were surprisingly frank and at times even confrontational about her viewpoint on U.S. policy toward Africa. “Very informative. Very knowledgeable. Very sharp. She was very candid, especially for somebody in public office,” said A. Kayode Ogunro ’05, co-president of the Harvard Business School’s Africa Club. One audience member...
...with a terminal diagnosis. Old media has already gone through Denial and Anger, and are now Bargaining, looking for ways to beat the Grim Reaper. "Most of the product ideas that you all are coming up with in this bargaining phase don't make any sense from the customer viewpoint," he told me recently. "Anything that falls into the category of 'the web doesn't pay well enough and so we need to gin up some alternative that will pay better' is going to fail - people aren't stupid." All that remains, he said, is Depression and Acceptance...
...doctrine’s opacity grants the FCC enormous powers, as it will be able to dictate which viewpoints are legitimate enough for coverage, which would lead to one of two outcomes. Either the FCC would grant every viewpoint equal time, which clearly defies practicality, or it would grant only a handful of viewpoints equal time, which clearly defies “fairness...
...Mitchell, the key benefit in coming to Harvard has been a chance to integrate into a non-military community and learn from a viewpoint he might not normally encounter. “There’s a rich variety of perspectives and experiences,” he says, “that’s hard to replicate in any of the army or [Department of Defense] schools...