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Gaff Topsails offers few clear judgmentsabout the contradictions that fill its pages andwhich of the many perspectives is correct. It doesnot define the iceberg as a symbol of salvation ordamnation, but rather shows it as both, acathedral of blue ice and a treacherous perilwhose exact scope cannot be fathomed. If only forits descriptive power, the book is a deeplymesmerizing celebration of ambiguity and of theundeniable good in every conception
...society, we have not yet reached the point where this is possible. While our public culture exposes politically correct views of tolerance, all too often, people still privately harbor archaic ideas about sexual norms which restrict the opportunity for necessary communication about life-and-death health issues. If we are effectively to confront the danger to our community posed by these problems, we must begin with an open and honest discussion...
...point, Danilewitz is correct. Both of us have a strong commitment to diversifying The Crimson's editorial page. As Danilewitz noted, we pointed in our position papers to the fact that 80 percent of the columnists last year were Jewish as evidence that The Crimson's editorial page did not adequately reflect the diversity of opinion on campus. But Danilewitz fails to mention that we also pointed to the fact that the number of columnists who were female, non-white or science majors...
...correct this mistake, Einstein added a term to his equations that he called the "cosmological constant." This constant altered his equations to show that the universe would expand for a while and then stay relatively the same size...
Only last weekend I was characterized (good-naturedly) as someone who would like to have lived a century or two ago. I suppose that comports with my acknowledged contrarian sympathies, though it is not simply correct. I probably appreciate the alien world revealed in Plato's dialogues and Jane Austen's novels more than most others do. But it is because of this appreciation, not in spite of it, that I also probably appreciate our world and the possibilities of it more than most other...