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...what about those times when they experience a total blank? Says Hamlin: "A number of problems are not problems with memory at all. They are really problems with your attention." There are three basic steps in memory: registration, retention and retrieval. They occur sequentially; if new information isn't taken in (registered), it can't be stored. Focusing on incoming material, whether heard, seen or read, helps implant it in memory. Psychologist Cynthia Green advises students in her memory classes at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center that "often what we think we forgot we really didn...
...Magic Flute, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart shortly before his death in 1791, features the tale of Prince Tamino's (Sonny Elizaondo '00) quest to find Pamina (Tonia D'Amelio '00), his love. The rather basic storyline is complicated by Pamina's evil mother, the Queen of the Night (Tamara R. Spiewak '02), who commissions Prince Tamino to steal Pamina away from the just and wise Sarastro (John Driscoll '99) and the queen's trusted follower who guards Pamina, Monostatos (Joe Nuccio '00), with the hope of marrying...
Harvard gained the statistics from surveys it mailed to a sample of its casual employees. The survey, which was printed in five different languages, asked respondents for basic financial information and whether they rely on Harvard for their primary income...
...remember that day. Six minutes were all it took to murder four innocent men, one of them just older than some seniors on campus. How many seniors here would ever be willing to risk their lives to save others adrift at sea, hoping to reach a land where basic freedoms are taken for granted, fleeing a country where political prisoners are beaten and detained unfairly in decrepit prisons...
Liberals are big on rights. The 14th Amendment, according to the standard argument, extends to all citizens the equal protection of the laws. This guarantee must be upheld, especially when so basic a civic capacity as defending one's country is at stake. Discrimination on the basis of lifestyle is a clear-cut violation of individual dignity and self-determination, and as such cannot be countenanced. Conservatives take issue with such claims, objecting usually on the basis of unit cohesion. Rights, so the reasoning goes, are meaningful only insofar as a state can stay independent enough to secure them. Fighting...