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...place a call--and the onboard computer fetches. Access is limited (you can't get AOL, for example), and there's a lag in news and sports scores, because they are first read into the system by real people. E-mail, on the other hand, is instantly "verbalized" using text-to-speech software that recites your mail in that eerie, intonation-free televoice. Phone charges range from 19[cents] to a buck a minute, depending on how big a block of time...
...considerations are ignored, and the need to inform readers is paramount. Indeed, after The Crimson chose not to accept the advertisement, its editorial department contacted Horowitz and offered to consider an opinion piece on the subject, an offer he refused. The Crimson's news department also included the full text of the ad as an illustration to its March 7 story, judging that readers would not be able to understand the issue in context without having access to Horowitz's statements. No uproar followed, proving that Harvard's student body is able to listen to contrary viewpoints--even controversial ones...
...that very same article, however, you ran a photograph of the full text of the ad as an illustration to the story. In so doing, you made clear that you were not afraid to publish his views and were sincere in objecting only to the form of its presentation. After all, in the end, you published his entire text, and did so for free...
Response: the only antidote to the textual impossibility of dialogue. Fame: from the Greek phonei, to speak; famous: to be spoken about. Fame, which takes the written word from its chaste page and breathes life into it. The dream of text: to become speech, imperfect and ink-stained images of itself...
...opinion, in speaking, in fame: so much rests on image, on tone, on touch. This is power beyond what the text can provide. (Bush has courts, Washington, time; I have sentences, capitals, period.) But somewhere in these hypotheticals, somewhere between the shorthand and the puns, between the writing and response, are the beginnings of authority. The space between comma and dash, introduction and headshot, margin and word is space full of promise...