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...with the proliferation of media, Americans don't even have to listen anymore to anyone who doesn't agree with them. There's talk radio and cable and Truebeliever.com to reinforce and inflame their views rather than challenge them. At the bookstore, Ann Coulter and Al Franken square off on the best-seller table (see box). The hordes of media shouters both mirror the electorate and harden their outlook. Moderation may be sensible and practical, but it's not entertaining, and it doesn't sell books...
Vladimir Putin rapped on the microphone to get his ministers' attention. "Look over here and listen to me when I speak," he snapped. "If this is not interesting ... " He jerked his head toward the door, suggesting that the top officials gathered for this Security Council meeting should leave. It's not quite the calm, authoritative image the Russian President likes to project, but these days Putin often seems rattled. In an appearance on Russian TV last week, he warned of "clan struggles" that could plague the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, after its crucial elections...
...going through the motions," says Hayman, of Global Witness. "They are moving in the right direction, but nowhere near fast enough." For all his doubts, Hayman was pleasantly surprised earlier this year when Jean-Pierre Labbé dropped by Global Witness's London offices, saying: "I am here to listen." Labbé, 55, a former head of operations in Vietnam, has for the past two years served as Total's vice president for international public affairs - the point person for relations with often-hostile critics. Labbé says his job is to "translate the demands of civil society into...
...group of Harvard workers protested outsourcing and University labor policies yesterday, chanting “Listen, we are in the fight” in Spanish as they marched down Mass...
...listen to them, the “Sandwichgate” mini-controversy involving Parker, the Boston University coaching legend, eating his lunch in the stands during a Harvard practice before last spring’s NCAA tournament—much to Mazzoleni’s publicly-aired chagrin—is a dead issue...