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...essay, Handler responded that the lack of massive protests and student takeovers of administrative buildings is merely the result of the digital revolution, which has transferred the free expression of ideas from the picket lines to the Internet...
...stop pointing out the things that we are not, the stories that we do not write, they will see the threads of our narrative begin to come together; they will see that behind our pastiche, the post generation speaks in a language that does make sense,” Handler wrote in the essay. “We are writing a revolution. We are just putting it in our own words...
...when videos of John Smeaton, a Glaswegian baggage handler, began appearing on the web, it was clear that the public had found its hero. Smeaton, on a cigarette break at the time of the attack, tackled one of the men who exited the fiery Jeep and helped wrestle him into police control. Smeaton's post-attack interviews with TV journalists have become wildly popular on YouTube, appreciation societies have sprung up on Facebook, and there is even a website set up by an IT project manager in Glasgow: johnsmeaton.com, which has raked in a million views and over...
...house a few doors down the street. "The guy with the knife could still be inside," says Stevenson as the officers wait for backup. Dogs are barking behind the house as though the offenders are fleeing over the back fence. The officers strap on pistols, and with a dog handler as backup, approach the house. A large, angry Polynesian man clad in a singlet and long baggy trousers opens the door. "Hey, you need a warrant," he yells as the officers walk into his house. "Not for this," says another officer. Another man, tall and thin, emerges and glares...
...little over a year ago, 10 friends got together in San Francisco over a potluck dinner. There were a few teachers, a technology marketer, an engineer, a dog handler. What would it be like, they wondered amid the Christmas shopfest, if they all pledged not to buy anything new except food, medicine and essential toiletries for a year? Thus was born a movement that they named, in a light-hearted way, after the 1621 Mayflower Compact. "We are a group of individuals committed to a 12-month flight from the consumer grid," they wrote in a chat-room manifesto that...