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Reggie Bush is the Man
December 1st, 2005 Dan Chou's Story of the Week
Surfing through my various news sources, I was surprised to find SC-related news on the New York Times Online. I don’t think I’ve ever seen SC-related material on either the washingtonpost.com or nytimes.com as one of its main blurbs, but there was Reggie’s 619-painted face popping right out at me.
For some people like me who just like watching football but aren’t too keen in going back and checking high school performances and stuff, this just reiterated the fact that Reggie is so awesome.
“At Helix, nostalgic faculty members play it for laughs. At U.S.C., coaches have used it to regale guests. Check out the clip where he runs across the field and back again; the one where he breaks two tackles at the same time; the one where he spins away from a defender, fakes another and hurdles a third; the one where he …”
And yet, despite all this acclaim, I have been so surprised that Reggie’s personality. I would have expected a cocky guy who struts around campus, using his name like a credit card. Instead, his demeanor is quite different.
“When teammates form makeshift mosh pits in the locker room after victories, Bush is more likely to tiptoe on the benches around the perimeter, usually above the fray.” And one of my friends once said something to me about Reggie being a hard worker in school. That’s a lot to admire in one man.
Woodward Adds to Plame Scandal
November 16th, 2005 Dan Chou's Story of the Week
I haven’t been keeping up with this investigation as well I usually do, but when I was going through my news RSS feeds, this immediately jumped out at me. With all the talk recently in class about confidential sources and integrity, it initially surprised me that Bob Woodward would have to apologize to executive editor Len Downie that he knew about Plame.
Perhaps the best point this article points out is summarized in this paragraph: The abrupt revelation that Woodward has been sitting on information about the Plame controversy has reignited questions about his unique relationship with The Post while writing books with unparalleled access to high-level officials, and about why Woodward minimized the importance of the Fitzgerald probe in television and radio interviews while hiding his own involvement in the matter.
Woodward can definitely be considered a “celebrity journalist.” So where does this start affecting his journalistic integrity. There haven’t been many celebrity journalists like Woodward with such a peculiar relationship; this may be a time when news outlets begin adding parts regarding celebrity journalism in their code of ethics.
On Being Debonair
November 9th, 2005 Dan Chou's Story of the Week
What exactly does being debonair mean?
According to dictionary.com:
1. Suave; urbane.
2. Affable; genial.
3. Carefree and gay; jaunty.
Popular culture has, as Dan Neil pointed out, equated being debonair with how a person looks. That is why James Bond is the epitome of a debonair gentleman. “To be debonair would seem to require observing a rigid code of appearances, that you can never laugh too loud, get a pimple or fail to execute the tango perfectly. To be debonair is to be a metrosexual with delusions of grandeur.”
Instead, debonair is much more of how people handle themselves. There are a lot of guys out there who want to be debonair, because that is very attractive to girls. However, I like how this article points out that you can’t buy being debonair. It’s about a person’s character.
It reminds me of our “grilling the pastors” on Friday night (see a few entries down). Some may say that chivalry is dead, and so for those guys who do practice acts of chivalry, they often get misinterpreted as being flirts. Instead, that’s how every guy should act. We all need to be gentlemen. But if we all aren’t, that’s fine with me too — that means those who are will just stick out more. I need to stop thinking about girls.
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