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"My basic premise is that the internet is not replacing advertising but shattering it, and all the kingâs horses, all the kingâs men, and all the creative talent of Madison Avenue cannot put it together again."
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"Although Antioch may not be anyone's image of a disciplined campus, the 500 students and faculty in the auditorium that day in 1964 were well disciplined indeed. They sat in absolute silence throughout the talk. When the question period came, no one raised a hand. Instead, everyone rose and exited, again in silence. So[American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln] Rockwell began to curse us all. Still no one reacted. Eventually he gave up and left.
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""I frankly cannot even believe what I'm seeing, and I can't stomach the sight for long," said a pale, trembling Jack Swarbrick, the Notre Dame athletic director who, along with the commissioners of the major conferences, manages the complicated system of polls and computer rankings that make up the Bowl Championship Series in college football. "The elegant logic of actually having teams play one another instead of having a council of their betters select which team is superior to whichâthat is not what sports is all about.""
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