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They were Harvard's solution to the problem of student faculty-interaction...
Well, whatever; if a little fudging allows NBC to soak a few more dollars out of Visa for its annoying ads, more power to them. But NBC has hardly solved its problem. The factors dragging down its ratings - tape delays, too many up-close-and- personals, results being reported by an increasingly fast media (online and off) - will still be there (in the case of online media, tenfold) when NBC returns to Athens in 2004. The halcyon days when results were padlocked by a benign media dictatorship are over, thankfully. NBC's real problem is believing that its ratings have...
...Problem is, recognizable though platform diving is, it still isn't football. And Olympic basketball, while it is basketball, is Olympic basketball, a suspenseless, unsettling metaphor for everything ugly about American world dominance, as our arrogant stars steamroll over tiny countries at as much risk as one of our air squadrons pounding a Third World nation from 35,000 feet up. No, NBC needs to embrace the weird, surprising, freaky side of this panoply of minor sport. Think of the Winter Olympics, in which American viewers have lately fallen in love with the luge, not because they've ever used...
During this election cycle, the school's connection to one of the candidates--Al Gore graduated with an A.B. in government in 1969--would have posed a problem...
...Which certainly wasn't a problem for this New-Old Democrat. A few unpleasant things popped up for Gore: a touch of emotional tone-deafness - gunplay isn't "mischief," Al - a bit of the pandering square, and those weird pulsing "mm" sounds he makes when, presumably, he's trying to simultaneously listen to the question and figure out which answer to use. He thinks while he talks, too - when a specific question was asked, Gore would reel off the platform line for a while before risking a direct response, if he risked one at all. He has a nervous sort...