Word: complex
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...plot is typically Baroque-complex on the surface, yet simple underneath-and emanates hilarity over the crazy notion of irrational love. The production opens showcasing a dispute between the allegorical figures of "love" and "philosophy" over their importance to the happiness and well-being of mankind. Played by the incredibly brave and talented eleven-year old stars, Jeremy Swist and Andrew Bernard of Youth Pro Musica: The Greater Boston Youth Chorus, their adorable disposition immediately endeares the audience to what soon proves to be one of the most fulfilling nights this reviewer has experienced in a Harvard theater...
Boies' Yale classmate Walter Dellinger, a former U.S. Solicitor General, wrangled him into leading the Democratic team of lawyers in Tallahassee. "I called David at 4 p.m. the Monday after the election. By noon Tuesday, he was speaking on complex matters of Florida election...
Breyer, a graduate of Harvard Law School, said that because none of the nine current Supreme Court justices have any background in the natural sciences, lawyers and scientists have to prepare extensive briefs to educate them about complex scientific issues...
...electoral votes. Doing so might make the votes of a local minority more meaningful, but the rounding errors involved in awarding 30 percent of eight electoral votes would magnify small differences in the popular vote. There is a virtue in simplicity as far as elections go: The more complex solutions become, the harder it will be to divine in advance the situations under which the system might break down...
...tend to think, in which the lefties and righties of talk radio and television tend to bray and hoot. Clinton instinctively grasps the truth of the new American sympathies. One thinker who understands them well is Alan Wolfe, a sociologist who has done admirable research in the cross-grained, complex but essentially tolerant American attitudes toward gay rights, abortion and other signature issues...