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...name; in much of the rest of the world, where the memory of colonialism is still fresh, it is a source of pride and identity. Though Americans were midwives to the E.U.'s birth - Dean Acheson, the postwar U.S. Secretary of State, thought that Britain had made a historic error by failing to join the coal and steel community - they have often since been bemused by Europe's lack of nationalistic assertiveness. As Roger Cohen wrote in the International Herald Tribune recently, "The quiet glory of the postnational, postmodern entity is not the glory of the young, vigorous, flag-waving...
Krauthammer made a common error. God doesn't act to kill anyone through disease, natural disaster or any other cause. If he does, we're praying to the wrong...
...ERROR 1: I RECOGNIZE THE TYPE...
Groopman describes this kind of "attribution error" in the case of a nervous young woman who kept losing weight even when prescribed a high-calorie diet. Her doctors, convinced that she was lying about her food intake, suspected anorexia or bulimia, but her problem, diagnosed after years of ill health, turned out to be celiac disease--an allergy to wheat. Had the patient been male or older or less anxious, the doctors might have got it right in the first place...
...hungry for improvement.”LONGWOOD 3, HARVARD 1Yesterday, Harvard (4-5) struggled to keep up with Longwood (10-5), which tallied a run in the first inning after a line-drive double that came around to score.Two unearned runs in the third—resulting from an error and a fielder’s choice—put the Crimson in a three-run hole after only three innings.With two outs, junior Shelly Madick relieved freshman starter Dana Roberts and wiggled out of a bases-loaded jam. Harvard mustered a run in the fifth inning when senior Lauren...