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...VIEWED WITH ANGUISH THE CLASS picture of the children who were killed and wounded in Scotland, I wondered how someone who probably once looked very much like one of those innocent little boys in the photograph could turn into such a murderous beast. LYNDA M. WILLYARD Bridgewater, Nova Scotia...
Humans do this sort of thing all the time. But computers generally calculate each line of play so far as possible within the time allotted. Because chess is a game of virtually limitless possibilities, even a beast like Deep Blue, which can look at more than 100 million positions a second, can go only so deep. When computers reach that point, they evaluate the various resulting positions and select the move leading to the best one. And because computers' primary way of evaluating chess positions is by measuring material superiority, they are notoriously materialistic. If they "understood" the game, they...
...talented live rock band surrounding the stage provided a cornucopia of upbeat musical styles from gospel to funk to 1950s rock. The staging brilliantly took advantage of the constraints of the Pool Theatre by often placing the audience in the center of the action and cleverly utilizing the beast-like visage overlooking the pool. The vibrant colors of the set design and costumes complemented the perky, upbeat tone of the actors and reflected the psychedelic influences of the show's 1970s origins. The choreography was remarkable in its diversity, creativity and energetic execution by the Energizer Bunny-like cast...
...such jabbering Neanderthals such as Strom Thurmond, Jessie Helms, George Wallace...onto the national stage." The final biting prejudice against Southerners I will highlight states "most Southern whites were so crippled by inbred cultural racism that they could barely demonstrate that they were morally or intellectually superior to brute beasts." A Southerner I am; a brute beast...
While I knew the student council would be a different beast here at Harvard, I must admit that I never fully envisioned just how different. In particular, I never expected the ratio of women to men to plunge from four women for every male on my high school student council executive board to one woman for every seven males on the Undergraduate Council...