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...course, there are some tricks one can employ in order to simply sidestep lack-of-content syndrome. I could write a meta-column about writing a column. However, any delusions of column grandeur would soon dissipate because this idea has been employed by every hack since the invention of language. Most scholars do not even bother to read Homer’s first work—10,000 tired lines of dactylic hexameter about a blind guy trying to write a timeless epic. Homer was able to learn from his mistake and went on to compose the legendary Odyssey...
...China's undeveloped legal system has forced peasants to employ some pretty extraordinary means when seeking justice. In January, for example, hundreds of villagers in Henan and Guangdong provinces overturned cars and attacked officials accused of corruption. The anger is strongest in a vast countryside where hundreds of millions have been bypassed by economic development and face increasingly hard lives. (Premier Zhu Rongji acknowledged last week that "incomes for farmers in some major grain producing areas ... are decreasing...
...Harvard’s abundance, the University is not an infinite resource, and it can’t employ a professor to pursue every branch and sub-branch of Veritas. Some pruning of the tree is unavoidable. A debate over the merits of Vaux’s field should be left to the experts, both here and at other institutions. Insofar as students are qualified to judge his candidacy—in his performance as an instructor inside and outside of the classroom—he’s preaching to the choir...
...suggestion you gave was to have fun with your dissertation by coming up with exciting and funny titles that are inappropriate. Did you employ that strategy...
...turns out to be the case, Veraart and his team intend to compile a lexicon of correspondences so that specific visual stimuli can be easily reproduced. Imagine public spaces seeded with a kind of invisible braille, live pixels embedded in doors, stairways and streetcorners that blind MIVIP users could employ to see important information about their immediate surroundings. Veraart and his colleagues are working to refine the technology so that the blind could actually see obstacles like chairs and tables in this...