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...discussion with those students who would be most directly affected. It is especially worrisome that Pryor saw fit to discuss the changes with concerned non-SAC students but did not feel that SAC members deserved to be consulted. Although SAC had been making several efforts to increase student access to leadership roles at the IOP--most notably by reducing its own size and by creating the senior associate program to devolve responsibility to students outside SAC--it was never given an opportunity to respond to Pryor's concerns. Had Pryor outlined to SAC his vision of a new structure...
What organization will rise anew from SAC's ashes is still unclear. Some have worried that in pursuit of equal access to students, the IOP may not provide for any leadership roles through which students can channel their concerns. Perhaps these fears will be alleviated at this morning's breakfast meeting. Perhaps also Pryor's actions will not set a dangerous precedent, and the leaders of this new structure will not live in a state of permanent unease that they, too, may find themselves suddenly undesirable...
...real problem with today's negative TV ads is not that they're so negative. It's that they're such lousy TV. From D.C. to Dixie, it's the same vocabulary of ominous synthesizer music, phony-sounding testimonials, graphics worthy of public-access cable and canned punch lines ("Wrong for the court. Wrong for our kids"). It wasn't always so. The 1964 Daisy ad was practically avant-garde. Today, while Madison Avenue produces some of the most sophisticated programming on the air, most political ads remain stuck in the Stone Age. Nader looked like a philosopher king simply...
...there are huge questions about what a reasonable price would be. Barry has suggested a monthly fee of $4.95. But websites all over cyberspace burned furiously last week as Napster fans threatened to ditch the service if it charged as much as a nickel for music-file access...
This is a breakthrough of astronomical proportions. Whereas for years scientists have had only one Hubble-quality telescope, they will soon have access to more than a dozen. "What's been happening in the telescope game," says John Huchra, a veteran observer and a professor at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "is incredible...