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...book, Groopman recounts cases of brilliant success and terrible failure, weaving in analysis of the psychological shortcuts he says doctors use to make a diagnosis...
Twenty-eight years after publishing his wildly successful, Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Gödel, Escher, Bach,” Douglas Hofstadter has produced a piece that is beyond brilliant. The book sits on shelves with its cover proclaiming, “I Am a Strange Loop.” And, as we would expect, Hofstadter’s new masterpiece is indeed a strange loop, but one that deserves close attention.“I Am a Strange Loop” sets out to probe the essence of the soul—in a philosophical, cognitive...
...shot my wife”) may lead audiences to believe that the film will be filled with dramatic on-foot chases and explosions, screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers turn “Fracture” into a battle of wits and words, instead. Ted Crawford (Hopkins), a brilliant engineer specializing in “fracture mechanics,” finds his beautiful, younger wife Jennifer is sleeping with another man. He sets up the perfect murder and delights in watching police officer Rob Nunally realize the woman lying on the floor is Crawford’s wife. With...
...attack was a brilliant tactical stroke, but it sealed the fate of the attackers. The survivors responded with all-out war. In July 1624, some 800 Indian warriors risked a two-day battle with 60 armored and well-armed colonists and lost. Twenty years later, Opechancanough, nearly a century old, was captured and shot in the back in a Jamestown jail. This too set a pattern: of conflict and expulsion, which lasted until the last Indians were beaten and settled on reservations in the late 19th century...
...cozy relationship to journalists has been a source for criticism from conservatives (who feel he toadies up to them) and liberals (who feel they toady up to him). Delivering the Gonzales exclusive to King was not an intentional bid to prove his independence from the fourth estate - a theoretically brilliant tactical move - but the fallout provides a glimpse of a press corps ready to pounce...