Word: discussions
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...during mealtime or while a child is doing homework. Kids should ask an adult for permission before turning it on. Parents should convey to their children that watching television is a planned activity. A friend of mine goes through the TV listings with his three sons to discuss what they'd like to watch, and I think that's a great idea. The TV should be turned off when a particular show is over. Parents should also make an effort to become familiar with the shows that their kids watch. Television can provoke useful conversations within families, much...
Those are just two examples of why it's so difficult for all of us, black and white, to discuss racial issues productively: our words keep throwing us back to the past. That's what's happening in Decatur, where school officials' stubbornness and loaded language from both sides have escalated a local dispute over school safety into a racial cause celebre...
...presidential-candidate debates so far, he should take heart from an Oscar Wilde quip: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." That was not the case Sunday eveging in Tempe, Ariz., when four Republican presidential candidates met in a televised forum, ostensibly to discuss the issues facing the nation. In fact, Alan Keyes, Orrin Hatch, Steve Forbes and John McCain never really got moving on any substantive exchanges, as they were far too busy huffing and puffing over the conspicuous absence of front-runner George W. Bush. "We're here answering questions," Forbes griped...
...late August, my co-editor and I met in Bryant Park, New York City, to discuss our magazine. I had a Rolling Rock, Mr. Paul sipped Merlot. That day, I signed myself up for a Scrutiny on the Harvard-Yale game. That balmy cosmopolitan evening, under the din of 1,000 schmoozing yuppies, I decided to make early November a miserable time of year. What was I thinking...
Students interested in seeing more minorities in campus theater productions met with the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) last evening to discuss ways to get a more diverse group of faces into Harvard theaters and onto the stage...