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...time TV last week to announce his biggest change of course since he became President, Bill Clinton was still fussing over the wording of his five-minute speech. He and his aides were gathered around a table in the private dining room in the West Wing tinkering with the text. Just a few steps away, in the Oval Office, a camera and lights had already been set up for the broadcast. "What do you think?" Clinton finally asked Dick Morris, a friend and Republican consultant whose growing influence on the President has stirred an intense round of palace controversy...
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Well, whatever it takes. Giving up writing frees the hero to throw himself passionately into the absurdly difficult task of helping Lentz win a bet: that within a year, he can program a computer to construe any literary text at least as well as a human, 21-year-old undergraduate lit major. When he is being cynical, which is more than half the time, Lentz intends merely to stuff "the most complex and extensive neural simulator ever trained" with prepackaged, fake hermeneutics and suitably foggy lit-crit catchphrases. What he secretly hopes for is consciousness...
Sitting at the foot of a rabbi among a group of students, wearing his large, Knitted yarmulke on his head and looking at a Hebrew text of Talmud in his lap, Michal J. Geller '95 participates in the age-old Jewish custom of arguing...
Reading jokes bout the famous Harvard crank caller into the same text he cares so much about, Geller switches easily in and out of the worlds he straddles. One minute he's the diligent Jew who wakes up at 7 a.m. for morning services, who organizes the prayer leaders, who worries whether Hillel's dining hall is kosher enough. The next, he's flying a single-engine airplane across the Seattle sky, or dressing in costume, or programming at Microsoft...