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...defining phenomena of our age is migration. As the world shrinks and economies integrate, national boundaries become less important. At least, that's the theory. In reality, there is an élite of international professionals who do live comparable and seamlessly connected lives, whether they be in New York City or New Delhi, Johannesburg or Tokyo. But among the world's poor, things do not go as smoothly...
...legislation. Incredibly, many express the faith that this legislation, which had been formulated to balance the rights of speakers at Harvard against those of disruptive protesters, had all along been sufficient to guarantee free speech generally on campus. The scope of the legislation, however, was far removed from the phenomena of disinvitation, politically biased tenure deliberations, and donor boycotts. Moreover, the laissez-faire principle of the earlier legislation had done nothing to remedy situations in which the most popular, most confidently-voiced, best-financed, and best-administratively-supported positions are allowed to drown out all others...
...Pope claims, for example, that amid the reams of letters from cranks and people fooled by commercial airplanes there are also a handful of sightings from police officers and military pilots, sometimes after unidentified aerial phenomena were tracked on radar making physically implausible movements. All those files should be available for public viewing...
...paperclip for his or her house, he would probably be ignored, or laughed at, or punched in the face. But, somehow, such encounters are possible on the Internet—and the Internet came alive at MIT this past Friday and Saturday at the first-ever conference for Internet phenomena: ROFLCon. ROFLCon’s mere existence is worthy of a big fat star on the timeline of cultural history. The Internet meme, which is anything on the web—be it a video or an Internet celebrity—that gets picked up and sent around to tons...
...utterly human”—that equally speaks to the real appeal of Duchovny’s oft-soused scribe as it does to Parker’s pot-dealing mother of two. Fundamentally, these series are clever dramatizations of what is really the commonest of phenomena, one dignified by the greatest of American playwrights (cf. Willy Loman) and immortalized by the deftest of contemporary lyricists (cf. Rick Ross’s “Everyday I’m Hustling”). These are people, blemished in ways that particularly appeal to those aged...