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...undeniable influence and connection with events far afield and how they affect the basic relationship between husband and wife lies at the heart of the work. Atrocity on a national scale is mirrored by emotional aggression on a domestic scale, as Phillip'sa frustration, hostile for all its blindness, seethes at something that can't be explained or denied. Suspicions and confusion arise as if muddled foreign policy with the involvement of an equestrian doctor (Zachary Shrier '99) whose "unconventional" methods include all too casual relations with the patent...
...basic purpose of an academic institution is to allow for the free distribution of ideas, as the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities makes clear. When asked if the Business School had a policy on leafleting, an assistant dean replied that there was an "unspoken and unwritten agreement" that it was not encouraged. That does not qualify as a legitimate policy by any stretch of the imagination; as students, we had every right to leaflet on University property and they had no business preventing us from doing...
...heard of Kant, much less been able to name-drop The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals in section. Yet despite all the references to Herder, Plato, Machiavelli and Voltaire, I detected some resonance in this history of ideas. What "a priori" meant I did not know, but the basic themes I understood. Berlin was saying that theories were wonderful stuff, great to think about and even more fascinating to create; that there is no limit to where theory can lead in the real world (I knew at least of Marx); but that there is not a singular universal truth...
While he enjoys researching the complexities of chemistry, Herschbach also enjoys teaching the basic principles of chemistry in Chem 10, traditionally populated with a healthy population of first-years...
Essentially, however, it's business as usual in Starship Troopers. Basic training is still brutal. The platoon we follow from the first day of enlistment to battlefield apotheosis contains many familiar types--supermacho drill sergeant, dopey yokel and, at its center, Johnny (Casper Van Dien, a newcomer with a useful, uncanny resemblance to the old B-picture star John Agar), who is the traditional spoiled and aimless kid. He has--need one say?--joined up for the wrong, selfish reasons, but when his hometown is destroyed, Pearl Harbor-style, he embraces the right, vengeful-idealistic rationales for merciless slaughter...