JUGGERNAUT/CLAMBERDITE

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Of course, there's no way a pesky subculture like extreme sports could be
absorbed into the Olympics juggernaut without some kicking and screaming.
After all, it emerged as a direct response to the commercialism and
competitiveness of the big boys. The same kids appearing on Leno today
would've been mortified by the thought four years ago.
Gordon, D. & Gegax, T.T. (2002). Dudes and dinner roles. Newsweek, February
25, 2002, p. 48-51.


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With the release of Crossroads, Hollywood joins MTV, radio stations, and the
magazine industry in surrendering to this popular cultural juggernaut: all
Britney, all the time. The image of the 20-year old's faux-sexy, Barbified
prettiness is a pervasive a presence in American homes as the Pope's used to
be in Italian ones.

Franklin, H.B. (2001). The most important fish in the sea. Discover,
September 2001, p. 44-50.


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In journalism you sometimes have to say: "I was wrong." For instance, I
thought that the U.S. invasion of Haiti last fall would turn out much worse
than it has, and so far, fortunately, I've been wrong. 
     But there are also times when you should say, "I was right." For me
this time has come with the Japanese yen.
     For ten years or more, non-Japanese observers have debated whether
Japan's economic juggernaut has finally hit the wall. Those who think the
miracle is over say that Japan's people are tired of their belt-tightening
and that big Japanese companies are too cumbersome for the agile new
information age. But above all they say that the steady rise of the yen's
value will price Japanese exporters out of business, as Toyotas and Sonys
become too expensive for foreigners to buy.

Fallow, J. (1995). NPR Commentary: Right on the money. The Atlantic Monthly.
March 15, 1995.


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Over the past two decades a digital juggernaut has run through the cultural
landscape, leaving the old analog ruling class trampled in its wake. In the
1980s word processors took the place of typewriters, and CDs replaced LP
records. In the 1990s personal computers took over offices, even home
offices, and e-mail all but relegated letter writing to history. Television
went digital too-in theory, at least-as the Federal Communications
Commission rolled out a timetable for the conversion of U.S. television to
digital by 2006. Most people still watch analog TV, but there seems to be
little doubt that it will soon go the way of the typewriter and the LP.
Fisher, M.J. (2001) Pixels at an exhibition. The Atlantic Monthly. December
2001. 




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Last year, as the Netscape Communications Corporation was suffocating under
pressure from its giant rival, Microsoft, company executives came upon an
essay titled "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by a hacker named Eric Raymond.
Raymond's essay analyzed (and rhapsodized) the surprisingly workable global
collaboration that had resulted in the legendary "free" operating system
called Linux. Impressed by Raymond's analysis and needing a bold move to
counter the Microsoft juggernaut, Netscape made a decision that struck many
observers as an inexplicable last-ditch maneuver. The company not only took
all price tags off its Web-browsing products but also vowed to make their
"source code" freely available.
Liberty and Linux for all. Atlantic Unbound Web Citations, October 21, 1998.


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 For China 1999 was the eightieth anniversary of the May Fourth movement,
when the Chinese intelligentsia first advocated the adoption of Western
science and democracy. But it was also the fiftieth anniversary of the
establishment of communism in China. And the twentieth anniversary of the
beginning of the era of economic reform under Deng Xiaoping. And the tenth
anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement and massacre.
     Which anniversary means the most to China now? The May Fourth movement
and the Tiananmen movement suggest that China is heading toward democracy,
if haltingly. The massacre revives the grim spectacle of China as a fascist
juggernaut. Deng's reforms herald economic freedom and the victory of
business over ideology. But it may well be the anniversary of the
establishment of communism that has circled back most unexpectedly.

Corson, T. (2000). China's blue collar blues. The Atlantic Monthly.
February, 2000.
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In 1971 Kaczynski wrote an essay containing most of the ideas that later
appeared in the manifesto. "In these pages," it began, "it is argued that
continued scientific and technical progress will inevitably result in the
extinction of individual liberty." It was imperative that this juggernaut be
stopped, Kaczynski went on. This could not be done by simply "popularizing a
certain libertarian philosophy" unless "that philosophy is accompanied by a
program of concrete action.". 
Harvard and the making of the Unabomber. The Atlantic Monthly. June, 2000.



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"Juggernaut" Passages		CVA Think-Aloud Protocols