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Although this date would have been over eight months ago, Bracken pointed to the section of the same statute which allowed the plaintiffs to bring the matter before the Superior Court without a time restriction...
However, before we allow ourselves to indulge in over-idealized visions of future coexistence at Harvard, two highly related and somewhat troubling occurrences must be noted. First, the most glaring result of randomization to date is that the gender balance, once the only control imposed by the University, is terribly skewed. It's rumored that the incoming residents of Pforzheimer and Eliot are 70 percent male and only 30 percent female. Strike one for randomization...
...peace of the past three months, says Kruno, has been in many ways worse than the war. As the March 19 turnover date approached, thousands of Serbs--either fearful of Muslim reprisals or threatened by Serb hard-liners--began to flee with their belongings and anything else they could take with them. At night, firebugs and looters took over the streets, stripping apartments of everything from TV sets to parquet floors and setting fire to what remained. As in the first year of war, the Oprhal family huddled in their apartment, fearful of going out. Trucks loaded with loot prowled...
EUGENE TONI, 46, Alexandria, Va. A sergeant in the 101st Airborne and leader of a sniper team, he stepped on a land mine in Vietnam on Oct. 9, 1970, and lost both legs below the knee. That is also the date the military believed he died. In 1990, during a visit to the memorial, Toni, who now works for naval procurement, was searching for the names of friends who had died in Vietnam. "I just flipped back to the Tonis, and the directory had my name. They had my rank and service right, except that I was alive. I showed...
Dennett's book got rave reviews and has sold well, 100,000 copies to date. But among philosophers the reaction was mixed. The can-do attitude that was common in the decades after Ryle wrote--the belief that consciousness is readily "explained"--has waned. "Most people in the field now take the problem far more seriously," says Rutgers University philosopher Colin McGinn, author of The Problem of Consciousness. By acting as if consciousness is no great mystery, says McGinn, "Dennett's fighting a rearguard action...