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...Barron, the fallacy applies in many situations, including simple scenarios such as casino games like roulette or even something as mundane as flipping a coin. For instance, Barron said that if a fair coin were flipped five times and by chance landed on heads all five times, a person who had witnessed the series of flips would be more inclined to choose tails on the sixth flip. This person thinks that since the outcome of tails is bound to occur eventually, there is a higher probability of tails occurring and thus bets on this outcome, even though there...
...allegations” and “pandering” of the McCain-Palin campaign as a possible reason for conservatives’ disillusionment with the Republican ticket. “Given the character of the campaign McCain and Palin have waged, it does not surprise me that a person like Charles Fried would be alienated,” Kennedy said. “I’m glad that my colleague has seen fit to support the better candidate.” In recent weeks, Obama has collected endorsements from a slew of moderate Republicans, including former Bush press...
...described as “not consistent with a modern view of the world.”THE LONELY CAUSEBoth Mansfield and Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, spoke at length about the difficulties facing Republican-voting faculty at Harvard.Mansfield estimated that within the 50-person government department, there are three or four conservative professors.“For a department that wants to teach politics, that’s outrageous,” Mansfield said. “The weaknesses in the argument of liberalism are not addressed or not even known. It seems the University...
...nearly 1.7 million people displaced by the conflict and for the re-integration of former child soldiers. After Uganda’s independence, continued conflicts amongst rebel groups have thrown the nation into turmoil. Civilians of the north, particularly in the Gulu province, have fled to squalid Internally Displaced Person camps that are poorly supplied and defended by the central government, according to the Web site. “The war may appear to have ceased, but it will cost us more to restore the hope and happiness that used to take place in this nation” said Julian...
...Being with Claire makes me aspire to be the best person that I can be,” said Simon yesterday, at a brunch held at Hillel for the couple...