Word: existance
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...accept concepts which are new and alien, especially when it comes to technology. Consider the group of Aristotelian professors who made the following pronouncement to Galileo after he claimed to have discovered Jupiter's moons using a telescope: "[They] are invisible to the naked eye and therefore do not exist." Or the snappish response of Warner Brothers' founder H. M. Warner, who retorted in a 1927 interview, "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" when asked about the feasibility of films with sound...
...have inspired me to write my favorite poem that I have ever finished. So many great poets have attempted to capture what true love is, inside empty words spread out on a piece of paper. Shakespeare.... and so many others.... This is my small piece of how love can exist.... Again I thank you for your inspiration...
...truth is, Harvard has a serious prejudice against the humanities and an even stronger prejudice against the less-canonized humanities, like Folk and Myth or Film Studies (which doesn't even exist as a concetnration). Let me amend this: Harvard has a serious prejudice against anything that brings immediate pleasure to the academic and doesn't follow an established path to future success. Computer science concentrators have their Microsoft jobs lined up. Biochemistry concentrators proceed directly to medical school. And if it doesn't have that kind of destined security, at least the English concentration has "centuries of academic respectability...
...Going and working in after school programs is a good thing to do, but we also have to work on the long-term goals so that those problems no longer exist," Garland says...
...blind spot is Israel - and it may have to get even more blind following an unprecedented 45-minute debate in the Knesset Wednesday over Israel's as-yet unacknowledged nuclear weapons program. The debate was called by a left-wing Arab-Israeli legislator, Issam Mahoul, who wants whatever nukes exist, if they exist, to be dismantled. Cabinet ministers accused Mahoul of aiding Israel's enemies, and refused to answer his questions or budge from their traditional policy of "constructive ambiguity" - neither confirming nor denying the Jewish state's nuclear capability...