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So one immediately tries to make an orderly sense of things. There is no way to explain away cyclones, of course, but experts may be called in to analyze violence in sports or to invent measures guaranteeing that such a horror will never take place again. Not that rational activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suddenly, Two Waves of Death | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

The CRR is charged with preserving the essential freedoms of speech and movement guaranteed in the Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR). Coercive tactics cannot be condoned when rational arguments fail to persuade Harvard students and officials. The task of upholding this incontrovertible principle is exceptionally sensitive, and...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Fair Trial | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

The basic preaching of TA is that the mind has three "ego states": Parent, Adult and Child, which parallel the Freudian categories of superego, ego and id. The Adult is the rational problem solver; in the healthy personality, the Adult controls both the Parent, who keeps trying to enforce ancient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Keeping the Adult in Control | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

A. No. What is involved affects more than just a rational argument. The debate over deployment also had its strong emotional elements. I remember a Saturday when I flew in a helicopter away from the Chancellery grounds over 300,000 people who were demonstrating against my decision to deploy the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Helmut Kohl: My Objective Was Reconciliation | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Now, don't get me wrong. I am usually very calm, a rational person, not prone to fits. Really. But there is something about a New England winter that makes me really desperate for warm, sunny weather. And I think that five months of freezing rain makes most people feel...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: Spring Hasn't Sprung | 5/2/1985 | See Source »

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