Word: complexities
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...cameras on itself, with interesting and imaginative results. The first, of course, was The Truman Show, which took television to task for diverting our attention from the real world, accusing the medium of (literally) caging the human spirit in a dome of artifice. TV figures prominently in the complex morality of Pleasantville as well, but the movie is anything but just another case of the media being cynical about the effects of the media (which, by the way, we've had quite enough of). Pleasantville has a message about the stock that we take in our lives and actually makes...
David L. McAdams '95, who took Mazur's "Complex Analysis" class, remembers Mazur as "a charismatic man and a very good teacher...
...west, in the Washington with more salmon than lobbyists and more independents than either Democrats or Republicans, people do not like to be told what to do. It could be the pioneer spirit, or maybe they've got a complex about practically being squeezed off the map of the U.S. In any case, they could not have two more appropriate candidates going at each other in the U.S. Senate race, because neither one can be called conventional...
...largest U.S. ski operators, is seeking to singlehandedly control the area's economic life. The firm has expanded its real estate ventures and has branched into the kind of non-ski businesses that were traditionally run by ski-town locals, including retail shops and a controversial entertainment complex called Adventure Ridge. "It's drawing people away," as many as 1,200 a night, says Jonathan Staufer, owner of a local cookware store. But most such complaints were quieted last week. Even Staufer, one of the more persistent critics, says the fires were "an attack on everybody and on the lifeblood...
...will always need hospitals like Duke for help with the serious, tragic and complex medical problems that may affect any one of us. But what of the hardworking men and women who each day try, without fanfare, to provide humane, affordable, high-quality medical care despite the obstruction of regulators, the parsimony of businesses and the suspicions of a disillusioned and fearful public? These dedicated professionals are the real heroes in medicine. MICHAEL RADETSKY, M.D. Albuquerque...