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...tent, but that tent doubles as a big boxing ring, and in the weeks before the election every genus of Democrat--from the Southern pro-gun, antiabortion members of Congress to the Northern pro-choice, gun-control liberals in the Senate--duked it out over how to counter the President's agenda. Liberals argued it was time to get tougher with Bush on Iraq and the economy; moderates, many of whom backed Bush's war resolution and tax-cut proposal, argued it was time to get tougher on liberals. In the end the Democrats never got close to formulating...
...From what I know, she was a fine student,” says S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, who has been instrumental in finding Agatha housing...
...have been very much aware of the situation with Agatha and a number of other members of the administration came to me to help,” Counter says...
...Counter recalls that he tracked down a Ghanaian minister living in Wellesley in an effort to get someone from the same culture to appeal to her and offer help...
Pinker’s book is a fascinating work of intellectual history. But it is more important as a demonstration of the immense power of cognitive science to counter armchair philosophy in debates over human behavior. Was Hobbes right in thinking mankind was fundamentally bad? Any anthropologist can tell you that human violence is universal. Is it a sign of poor taste to prefer Mozart to Schoenberg? Behavioral psychology teaches that dissonance makes babies...