Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is a night for sympathy and to express solidarity, but I hope that tomorrow and the days after will hold more--will hold action," he said...
...this would change if a group of Undergraduate Council representatives have their way. A bill drafted by Aurelio Torre '00 would have the council express its support for bringing the program back to campus and create a task force to work with the administration for ROTC's return. The proposal has prompted a flurry of controversy in council ranks, overwhelming the uc-general email list with heated debate, and a vote on the bill has been postponed until next week. There are compelling arguments on both sides of the issue; but on balance, we hope the council defeats the bill...
...Kiely's we express our profound gratitude for their years of service and a fond adieu. To the Palfreys: Welcome to the jungle...
...Serbs--it was a seductive image, one that reached back across 600 years of Slavic victimization and imbued the solid, fleshy-faced and silver-haired man with the mystique of historical destiny. In a nation searching for a post-cold war identity, the aura served as an express ticket to total power. Conducting a new symphony of ethnic hate, Milosevic stepped into the top slot once occupied by Tito. Virtually his first act was to revoke the autonomy Tito had granted to the Albanians in Kosovo. Playing up nationalist passions, Milosevic helped ignite full-scale ethnic rivalry among some...
...upshot of all this is that the cherished goal of formalization is revealed as chimerical. All formal systems--at least ones that are powerful enough to be of interest--turn out to be incomplete because they are able to express statements that say of themselves that they are unprovable. And that, in a nutshell, is what is meant when it is said that Godel in 1931 demonstrated the "incompleteness of mathematics." It's not really math itself that is incomplete, but any formal system that attempts to capture all the truths of mathematics in its finite set of axioms...