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...attitude toward New York has not changed, he said. When the power was back on in my building, I moved back in, period. I was on an airplane the next week for work. Ive told myself, Im not going to worry about things I cannot control. Ive made a conscious effort to move forward without forgetting...
Beyond meticulous organization, the PSLM was conscious from the outset of the other factors conspiring to raise their media prominence into the stratosphere. Bartley concedes that there “was a definite visual intensity of the image which we didn’t even need to choregraph,” this photogenic nature of the strike stemming in no small part from the mystique of Harvard itself. But, across from the omniscient eye of John Harvard, the students realised that Harvard’s hallowed name was both a boon and a burden for their cause...
DiMaggio was particuarly conscious that the students were being presented as “a model of altruistic sentiment,” which complicated the notion of solidarity by placing the students above the workers as their “saviors,” a role which the PSLM actively decries. Moreover, he explains that a common media angle would be to use the PSLM actions as a nostalgic trigger for the journalist to wax lyrical on “the good old days of protest”: the baby boomer sixties. “They would...
...These days there isn?t a chief executive on the planet who isn't conscious of the extent to which terrorism can completely reshape, if not destroy a company - even an entire industry. The big question: what can a CEO do about it? That?s what a gathering of top executives met to discuss at a Fortune Magazine conference on leadership in New York this week, and their conclusions were not encouraging. When you?re in a fixed - and very high cost - business, like airlines for instance, you can't afford not to know when or where...
...responsibility for decisions one makes which are explicitly not made under any coercive conditions. What about a consensual hook-up between two drunken people? … The entire reason we consider rape such a serious crime is that we recognize each individual’s right to make conscious decisions what to do with their bodies. It’s too bad Harvard can’t do the same...