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Catherine Mayer's commendable article takes up the issue of the far right and how it is splitting societies in Europe [Aug. 10]. Unfortunately, by describing this development as "feeding off the economic crisis and the loss of trust in mainstream parties," she is missing the point. Phenomena such as xenophobia and fascism have historic roots and surface regularly with the help of opportunistic politicians. Unfortunately, the European media is as guilty as politicians - far-right or mainstream - for instigating and giving extensive coverage to racist parties under freedom of expression rules and with no regard for the protection...
...Garrido, he wrote that he had hired a private investigator to verify his ability to speak to people using only his mind. In an "affadavit" posted there, he said he had the ability to "control sound with my mind and have developed a device for others to witness this phenomena...
Such fraternization between poets and scientists wasn't uncommon. Poetry and science weren't wholly separate yet: they were seen as complementary ways of piercing the veil of everyday phenomena. William Wordsworth, Lord Byron and the Shelleys (Percy Bysshe and Mary) followed scientific breakthroughs like sports scores. Holmes traces echoes of the astronomical work of William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, through Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner ("the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward") and into Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer": "Then I felt like some watcher of the skies/When a new planet swims...
...Harry Markowitz devised a model for picking stocks that was, in Friedman's estimation, "identical" to his artillery-shell-fragmentation trade-off. And in the late 1950s, scholars at Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology became enamored of the idea that stock-market movements were, like many physical phenomena, random...
...revolutionaries exploited the deep passion of martyrdom as well as the timetable of Shi'ite mourning in whipping up greater opposition to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. With the deaths of Neda and others, they may now find the same phenomena used against them...