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...deadline for certification approaches, it is suddenly urgent to get rid of Karadzic and Mladic. The problem commands the highest priority at the White House, and other Western officials share the anxiety. Richard Goldstone, chief prosecutor at the Hague tribunal, appealed in Washington for military action to apprehend the Bosnian Serb ringleaders but returned last week with no encouragement. Bildt attempted to sideline Karadzic by elevating more moderate political rivals, among them Prime Minister Rajko Kasagic. When Karadzic sacked the Prime Minister two weeks ago, Bildt labored to transform the dismissal into a real power split that would displace Karadzic...
...risen Messiah. But Martin Luther, in pioneering Protestantism, stressed that every Christian could and should establish his own relationship with Christ by the reading of Scripture. And from the 17th century on, Western civilization, which had previously understood itself according to faith, found a new way to apprehend the world: the precise calibration and cool skepticism of scientific rationalism. In time, scholars began to subject Jesus to the tools of historical and literary analysis...
...Lenat. Though CYC's unabashedly more-is-more approach has raised eyebrows in the field, its design remains true to one of the central tenets of classical AI: symbolic knowledge makes the mind go round. In other words, if you can write down the logical structures through which we apprehend the world, you're halfway to re-creating intelligence. And if you can program what you've written into a machine, even better. Hence the 170 person-years CYC's handlers have devoted to codifying what any five-year-old already knows...
...case, Dean Lewis seems remarkably blase about the incident. It seems to me that there are many other things "one could say" about it, perhaps concerning Harvard's commitment to campus safety and certainly concerning efforts to apprehend the assailant, who is to blame and who deserves Lewis' censure. -Katherine L. Dunlop '97, Member, Harvard Alliance for Safety Training and Education (HASTE); Participant, Battered Women's Advocacy Project Harvard Law School...
...then apply to this situation as well. We bitterly mourn the deaths of the victims. We express our outrage and pour out our wrath upon Hamas, whose cruelty, inhumanity and hatred of the Jewish people knows no bounds. We demand that all possible steps be taken in order to apprehend these terrorists and to prevent such tragedies from occurring again. And "we hope and pray that the dream of peace may one day become a reality...