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...four blocked shots.The Big Green is deep in the front court but their lack of height--with their tallest players standing three inches shorter than the seven foot Cusworth--led to mismatches on the offensive end. Trying to defend the big man caused foul problems for Dartmouth. Forwards Elgin Fitzgerald and Brian McMillan each committed four fouls, while fellow forwards Dan Biber and Kurt Graeber picked up three apiece.In the end, Big Green coach Terry Dunn chose the 6’8 sophomore Biber to guard Cusworth down the stretch and in overtime. Biber held the big man to just...
Appropriately, Elgin showed the film in her freshman seminar, “Skepticism and Knowledge...
...have theories of perception, theories of judgment, theories of evidence,” says Elgin, “[and] over time we can discover mistakes in our previous representations of things, but that doesn’t satisfy the question, can we truly be wrong about things...
Professor of Education Catherine Z. Elgin, a specialist in theories of knowledge, says that reality is based on what occurs independently of people and their reactions to these occurrences. But she says there is no way to prove that we do not currently exist in a “Matrix”-like reality, hooked up to machines and submerged in some foreign...
...Getty Museum in Los Angeles agreed to return to Greece two ancient artifacts: a 2,400-year-old tombstone and a 6th century B.C. marble relief of women offering gifts to a goddess. For decades, Greece has noisily lobbied for the return of relics--especially the British Museum's Elgin Marbles, which were stripped from Athens' Parthenon in the early 1800s. Its efforts got a big boost last year, when Italian authorities put former Getty antiquities curator Marion True on trial for trafficking in looted works. Then in February, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed to return...