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...object of the exercise was not to come up with the best theoretical plan for eliminating the deficit, taking no account of the political obstacles that almost invariably thwart Congress and the White House. Rather, the purpose was to demonstrate that achieving a balanced budget necessarily involves broad- based sacrifices that may be unpleasant but are hardly catastrophic...
Remember the image of the book as an object, as a welding of board, paper, string, glue and ink; remember the pyramids of the Egyptians, built from sand, stone and mortar: They were built to ward off time. Each individual block, though carved to protect a pharoah, was a move by man to withstand wind, water, night and other men. Each book we print adds to the monolith of similar blocks we preserve, that we stack in piles, climb on top of, burn out of fear...
...spoke about peasants with off-beat seriousness and the same mannerisms he used to talk about cigar shops on Madison Avenue. And of course, the peasants were not just impoverished, but the object of American geo-political movements. "The essence of my being to a peasant in Thailand is being an American--not by choice, but by paying taxes...
...course, subtle biases are built into the admissions system. The Committee gives preference to alumni children, and since not many Asian-Americans have graduated from the College, their children still do not constitute a large number. Although one may object to this special consideration, Harvard is in the end a private business which must maintain financial solvency. Since much of the money comes from alumni contributions, the College is obligated to a certain extent to accept a large proportion of legacies...
Scientists years ago found compelling evidence that black holes exist, but they were uncomfortable with singularities, because all scientific laws break down at these points. Most physicists believed that in the real universe the object at the heart of a black hole would be small (but not dimensionless) and extremely dense (but not infinitely so). Enter Hawking. While still a graduate student, he and Mathematician Roger Penrose developed new techniques proving mathematically that if general relativity is correct down to the smallest scale, singularities must exist. Hawking went on to demonstrate -- again, if general relativity is correct -- that the entire...