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...Cleland to admit that most people who buy diet pills know they don't work, and that the Venn diagram of those people and the people who read FTC reports doesn't have enough overlap to be worth 2 1/2 years of effort. What he didn't understand, and why he should use whatever little bit of remaining FTC budget he has left to take his staff to a Eugene O'Neill play, is that people want to be deceived. You don't go to John Edward because you believe, but because it's nice to pretend you believe...
...Barks freely admits that his versions of Rumi aren't always accurate from an orthodox or scholarly angle any more than a linguistic one. But that, he insists, isn't really the issue. "How do you take a poem written long ago and far away and get it into a person's life today?" he asks. "The scholarly versions of these poems aren't the original either?they're just words pointing to an original we can't reach." It's a point that even Barks' harsher critics acknowledge. An Americanized Rumi who speaks to the hearts of hundreds...
...must admit that I am both confused and saddened by the view expressed by Nader R. Hasan in his letter (“Israeli Retaliation Could Light Mideast Fuse,” Sept. 25). He claims to recognize the right of Israel to defend itself, but goes on to unilaterally characterize this reaction as a bad one. Hasan seems to think that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has nothing better to do with his time than persecute Palestinians, and that he focuses every bit of policy upon this goal...
...total of 19 professors in the Department of History are on sabbatical for all or part of this year, leaving the department a watered-down version of its normal self. Department members admit that this is an unusually high number, and though concentrators had fair warning that the ranks would be diminished, the lack of options in this year’s course catalogue still came as an unpleasant surprise to many...
...precocious three-year-old. As a director, this hasn’t affected my professional life too much at all, because I always have been able to hire assistants to help me gain access to things I don’t understand. It can be a little embarrassing to admit the colossal lack of functional intelligence that I have in computers, but I usually just suck it up and ask for help. When I was in college, I used to convince professors to let me write out all of my papers by hand, because I couldn’t type...