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...advance, reading drafts along the way and writing lengthy, detailed comments at the end of the essay. Still, though these efforts may make us more interested in our work and surely enhance the learning process, there is only so much a TF can do. There is still an element missing--a community of readers...
...general, competitive sports are what they are because of some element of error or unpredictability. Without those most human of qualities, these face-offs are reduced to mechanical skirmishes that lack any sense of the drama and profundity that are the essence of all great achievements. Speed skating without Dan Jansen's disastrous fall or baseball without Fred Merkle's classic boner are barely worth watching. The passion to create Deep Blue can only be explained as part of our society's continuing struggle with the technological revolution of this century. We tend to trust machines more than people, allowing...
Perhaps the single strongest element of the show, however, lies in the third important group of characters. These are the "mechanicals," the clowns of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A band of lower-class artisans, their only goal is to rehearse the play they hope to stage before Duke Theseus in honor of his wedding. The play's most richly, broadly comic scenes fall to these characters, and the actors in this production pull off them off with sheer genius. As individual comic actors, the players are consistently hilarious; as a group, they forge a bond of buffoonery that transcends...
...again, the tape was just another piece of circumstantial evidence - not proof that McVeigh bombed the federal building. Says Cole: "While the government has done a masterful job at presenting the evidence at hand, prosecutors have yet to document McVeigh physically making the bomb. This is a key element that must be satisfied by the law." Another potential problem: Because the government has no witnesses placing McVeigh and no one else but McVeigh at the scene of the crime, prosecutors may have to rely on the accumulation of circumstantial evidence alone...
...most of us, comfort isn't enough. In line with the famous contributions of Locke and Marx to the theory of labor, we value the creative element of the job. Work is important to us because it allows us to leave our mark on the world, to mix some part of ourselves with objective reality. This is the drive behind much of our anxiety. We want access to jobs that "make a difference," and these seem to be in short supply. Artists often think that they have cornered the market in this regard. They think that they are the only...