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Perhaps not, because the new technologies have made the traditional concept of culture as a community activity seem old fashioned to many people. One of them appears to be Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who reportedly has bought the electronic rights to museum masterpieces for projection on the walls of his mansion-in-the making in Medina, Washington. Billionaires used to endow museums to care for their private art collections; amassing the digitalized holdings of such institutions for home enjoyment is not quite the same thing. With libraries moving online and 500 channels of interactive TV promised fairly soon, even modestly...
...professor will leave one part of a concept unexplained, and ask you in a problem set to draw a conclusion," says Cedar Reiner '98. "He will leave blank gaps in logic for you to fill...
...course meets in Boylston Hall, in a spacious corner classroom with arching windows. Students sit in a circle and discuss the material of the previous session; occasionally one of them will come to the board to demonstrate a concept...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
According to Johnson, the concept of community policing has been around for more than 10 years, ever since Houston Police Commissioner Lee Brown implemented initiatives in his city to bring his police force closer to the community. Since then, the idea has spread to other cities...