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Here Magaw disagrees. The worst error, he says, was the decision by the raid's top two commanders to take part in the assault, thus eliminating the perspective that might have allowed them to call it off and avert disaster. One leader rode in a helicopter, the other joined the raiding party that entered the compound. "It's the same effect as if the Redskins would send their coaches onto the field," Magaw says. "Your coaches were where they couldn't see what was taking place." The ATF, he says, had never trained the leaders to recognize the flaws...
However, Descartes was profoundly wrong, it appears, in his assertion that mind and body are wholly independent. The mind, argues University of Iowa neurologist Antonio Damasio in his book Descartes' Error, is created by the body-specifically by the brain. Utterly contrary to common sense, though, and to the evidence gathered from our own introspection, consciousness may be nothing more than an evanescent by-product of more mundane, wholly physical processes -- much as a rainbow is the result of the interplay of light and raindrops. Input from the senses clearly plays a part; so do body chemicals whose...
...President Clintonand Republican leaders today predicted thata compromise can be reached this summer. "We have major differences over how the budget ought to be balanced," the President said after meeting withSenate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Democratic leaders. "But I think it would be an error to delay it and run the risk of having a crisis in government." Dole and Gingrich made no pledge to budge, but Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said both parties "are committed to making this work...
Reading through The Crimson's Commencement edition, I noticed an error which I'd like to correct! In Sarah Scrogin's story on Class Day ("Class Day Speeches Remember, Look Forward," news story, June 8, 1995), she makes reference to Clark Dean's address. She writes, "Dean referred to a poem by W.H. Auden titled 'Icarus' which he learned about in Gen Ed 105: The Literature of Social Reflection...
When The Harvard Crimson received the picture of the late Sinedu Tadesse along with the message, "Keep this picture. There will soon be a very juicy story about her," the paper made a grave journalistic error. It did not investigate. And, although it may be true that one never knows if anonymous tips are bogus or legitimate, some of the most exciting and important news stories have depended upon such tips, e.g. those provided by Deep Throat in Watergate...