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...chunks, with each chapter divided into sections with clever headings. The concepts set forth in each segment of a chapter magically coalesce into a clear set of logical ideas which are easy to understand, but hard to articulate.Although Hofstadter is no longer as young as he was during the creation of “Gödel, Escher, Bach,” “Strange Loop” strikes me personally as an eloquent explanation of the proto-philosophical quandaries I found myself in during my childhood. Such universal questions seem impossible to tackle, but Hofstadter leads us through...
Their solution was the creation of autonomous but university-affiliated financial aid entities whose boards would include only the payers of educational costs: parents, alumni, and students. From this concept emerged the student credit union initiative. Successful student credit unions have emerged at the University of Pennsylvania and at Georgetown University. These entities have prospered for over 20 years. Their potential will not be fully realized until they assume their logical mandate of administering student loans independent of the university. Such a financial office would enable the university to recuse itself from administering student loans...
...exhibit is intentionally placed outside of an officially sanctioned Harvard art space so that a new audience is witness to the revisiting of past works.” This raises questions about the nature of documentation itself: “Is it a fair re-creation or expression of the original?” asks Hays. “That Was Then and This is Now” is a unique exhibition in that it features two-dimensional documentation of previously displayed three-dimensional projects, such as installation and performance art. “The range of works really does...
...summer the season of movie superheroes? No: supervillains. They get the plot spinning toward catastrophe; its their lurid schemes the hero must rise to defeat. Especially in sequels, which will dominate the box office this summer, all the ingenuity not expended on special effects goes into the creation of really nasty villains. Greed was good to villainous Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. To the producers of this summer's would-be blockbusters, bad is great...
...benefits called for by the task force also included access to the University’s shuttles and athletic facilities, subsidized daycare at the science complex, and, in the long term, the creation of a “private, charter, or magnet school sponsored by Harvard...