we missed ann coulter but nailed william kristol
A well-aimed pie tin filled with goop delayed, but failed to derail, an otherwise civil dialogue on U.S. foreign policy at Earlham Tuesday evening.
Neoconservative journalist and commentator William Kristol was about 30 minutes into his speech on international affairs when a slender young man crossed the stage of Goddard Auditorium and slung the ersatz pastry into his face.
Kristol appeared momentarily stunned, then wiped the brown and white goo from his eyes with a paper towel, stepped back to the podium and said, "Let me just finish this point."
Members of both sides of the political spectrum in the overflow audience rose to applaud.
Kristol, a political activist and co-founder of The Weekly Standard, had been invited to speak by Earlham President Doug Bennett as part of an effort to introduce a variety of viewpoints on the campus.
Kristol's support of the Bush administration's foreign policy was seen as a counterbalance for the prevalent liberal views on the local campus.
Bennett introduced Kristol and was sitting on the stage during the speech. He was splattered by almost as much of the attack pie as Kristol.
- Don Fasnacht, "Speaker takes a pie in the face," palladium-item march 30, 2005
posted March 30, 2005 in performanceluckily, I use AP style when writing friendster testimonials
At some companies, such as TheLadders.com, a New York-based company that helps people find high-salary jobs, hiring managers would rather see an innocent, uncensored profile on Friendster or Tribe. Dagny Prieto, the director in charge of hiring graphic designers, Web site coders, and writers, regularly uses Friendster to look at job applicants before interviewing them. "Friendstering" is the next step after Googling, she says, because applicants' profiles are filled with clues about what they might be like to work with. "Someone will come in [for an in-person interview], be all buttoned-up and seem very proper, but you know you just saw their profile, and on it, their friends were talking about how they were wild and crazy and party seven nights a week," she says. For Ms. Prieto, that's fine. "I want to know what your real personality is like," she says. However, bad grammar or typos, even on candidates' friends' pages, give her second thoughts.
- Jessica Mintz, "Social-Networking Sites Catch the Eye of Employers," Wall Street Journal Online march 29, 2005
posted March 30, 2005 in crap