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...ten riveting minutes last Friday, CNN’s “Crossfire” dared to air a real debate, albeit by accident. “The Daily Show”’s Jon Stewart ambushed hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala, charging them with “partisan hackery” and eviscerating them and the rest of the mainstream news media for abdicating their journalistic duties to the American public...
...opinions on key issues before and after they participate in a weekend of moderated deliberation. His research has shown that most participants not only demonstrate greater understanding of the issues after the weekend, but that that this increased knowledge leads a significant percentage, often between five and ten percent, to change their original opinions. If a Deliberation Day produced comparable shifts, the electoral significance could be huge. Ackerman and Fishkin even imagine a possible ripple effect scenario, in which the campaigns would ultimately be forced to rely less on sound bites and more on substantive policy proposals...
...Osirak highlights the problem left by even a successful pinpoint strike - ten years later, UN inspectors found that Iraq had been far further along the road to building nuclear weapons than anyone had anticipated. The preemptive strike had simply forced it to diversify and conceal its methods...
...know, a recent survey of 13,000 Harvard Law School alumni found that Professor Tribe is the most admired member of the school’s faculty, past or present. When Tribe was just 35 years old, Time Magazine included him in a list of the ten most outstanding law professors in the United States. He has helped author the constitutions of several emerging democracies, including South Africa, Russia, and the Czech Republic. He has argued more than 35 cases before the Supreme Court, and he has won most of them. His masterful treatise, American Constitutional Law, justly dominates...
...Ten years ago, a lot of us didn't even know how to get online," says Alice Solomon, 67, founder of GorgeousGrandma.com a support site for aging single women, and author of Find the Love of Your Life After 50. "But these days, among my peers, online dating has become the hottest thing since underwire bras...