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Why I’m boycotting the 2014 Winter Olympics
I won’t watch the winter Olympics this year because I am disgusted with the Russian government’s homophobia, corruption, and abuse of its citizens. I don’t know what difference my lack of media consumption will make as a political statement, but I don’t even want to watch, I am that turned off. I admire Olympic athletes, […]
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Google posts Doodle in support of gay Olympians
Google sported a rainbow-colored doodle with a quotation from the Olympic Charter on their search page in support of LGBT athletes at the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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The customer is the person we need, not the person who needs us
The customer is the person we need, not the person who needs us. At first glance, this quotation seems paradoxical. In truth, we need each other. But good customer service means forgetting, for the moment, the truth that the customer needs us, and focusing instead on the truth that we need the customer. People sometimes […]
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Deaf Heart, confidentiality, vagueness, and transparency
There is currently a discourse within the American Deaf community about the resignation of two Deaf members of the board of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID). The members who resigned, Lewis Merkin and Naomi Sheneman, say that the confidentiality agreements they signed when they joined the board prevent them from discussing in detail […]
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Taking a moment away from thesis writing to watch the inauguration