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...theme of these words. The nameless Son is a humdrum high school student when he accidentally runs over his nine year old sister with a car. He is plucked out of obscurity to occupy the foreground of a blood red stage, where he speaks for two hours on the topic of his sister, his family and his dissatisfaction with life in general, interrupted sporadically by dialogue largely vacant of meaning. The figure of the Daughter haunts the Son, often twinning his gestures or acting out key moments in the accident...
...recent stroke of genius was to realize that demonstrating an understanding of contemporary trends in mathematics would surely be a convincing way to conquer these ghosts. Indeed, in fuzzy mathematics he has found a hot topic--it has beem the subject of more than 4000 research articles since its invention in 1965. Unfortunately, Bush's use of fuzzy arithmetic to explain Gore's positions, while an inspired political move, was somewhat lacking in detail. So, for the mathematically uninitiated, I'd like to spell out exactly what was meant by "fuzzy math...
...think it's a controversial topic. I've read the diary at certain points in my life and I think I got more out of my later reading because I read it when I was younger," said Dalia L. Rotstein '03, who is also a Crimson editor...
...during the first three questions on health care. The Truster pronounced that he was under stress but mainly truthful. Discussing prescription drugs he registered a walloping 94 percent under the heading "Intensive Thinking." I have no idea what that meant, but Bush scored just 17 percent on the same topic...
...officers love a good against-all-odds story line. "We like to see that kids have overcome adversity," says Cornell's Gabard. "Goodness knows, they'll face adversity in college." Provided the adversity is authentic - like a death in the family - it can make a much more gripping essay topic than a summer jaunt through Europe. And if applicants have suffered any dip in academic performance, they need to account for it, either in an essay or a counselor's letter...