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...ways, the architecture of control and the architecture of serendipity are at odds. Some universities, stores, television broadcasters, and government offices promote the echo chamber; others promote serendipity. My suggestion is that for good lives, good universities, and good societies, the power of self-sorting is at best a mixed blessing. However unpleasant and jarring they can be, unchosen, unanticipated encounters play a crucial role; they are indispensable not only to education but also to citizenship itself. Far from wishing them away, we should welcome them...
...Gaullist danger hung over the chamber on Tuesday when Gaillard staked his cabinet on a vote of confidence and won, 282-196. The Premier used the vote as a maneuver in his up-hill struggle to push stabilizing constitutional reforms through the Assembly, but he faces further debate on the proposal next week...
Manson’s next projects include a tour in Canada with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and more performances in Europe, but she plans to make a stop in her hometown of Cambridge this June for Radcliffe Day, when she is being honored as an outstanding alumna by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies...
...Icelanders - from cab drivers who recite economic statistics to Prime Minister Geir Haarde who travels the world calming investors' nerves - the hysteria appears overblown. "What you'd expect to see out of these windows is fire," says Finnur Oddsson, managing director of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. Instead, he peers out at a $138 million construction project at the University of Reykjavik. Iceland, he points out, has been in this situation before. In early 2006, credit agencies criticized Icelandic banks for their lack of transparency and reliance on international capital markets. Analysts' opprobrium drove the krona down by 25% against...
...week was a jarring reminder of what awaits her if, as most expect, she fails to win the Democratic nomination. As she weighs her return to the Senate, Clinton is in the uncomfortable position of being the focus of even more scrutiny and speculation than when she entered the chamber in 2001. Still relatively junior in terms of party seniority and with no committee chairmanship power base in sight, Clinton must adjust to a deliberative body where 17 of her colleagues openly supported her rival - and still others might feel she has divided the party by dragging out the race...