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...rely on the police to deal with young people on the streets, the vast majority of whom are not criminals in any shape or form? The question of the common good lies at the heart of this debate - a question politicians appear not only unable to answer but also too nervous to touch with a barge pole. Stuart Waiton, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND...
...favorite pastime. I don’t love watching any old baseball team—it’s only the Boston Red Sox that I have come to adore. What other team—winning or losing—pulls together America like the Sox? (Answer: none...
...bankteller, simply because of the way Linda is described. But base-rate probabilities make it impossible for this to be true. In a later slide, Kahneman displayed two identical multiplication problems on the screen in reverse order and showed that a person’s estimate of the answer depends on whether the numbers are arranged in ascending or descending order, with higher estimates predicted when larger numbers come first. Kahneman explained that much of the success of his work has come from its narrow focus. “We did not try to make a general model of what...
...Where do Jews come from?” asks a character in the first act of “A Little Night Yiddish.” The play, written by Laura M. Togut ’08, may not answer this question, but it certainly gives the viewer a visual treat in its presentation of Yiddish theater and song. Despite a hard-to-follow plotline and technical difficulties related to the projection of English subtitles, the show was amusing and the cast was enthusiastic. Unfamiliarity with the Yiddish language or Jewish traditions didn’t prevent anyone from having...
...answer comes out of a collective conversation,” Lisak said...