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Sjogreen, who is replacing current president Justin T. Lin '98, will begin his term in January, the 15th anniversary of HCS in its current form...
...everyone takes their own and others' ideas seriously. Dialogue is distinguished from chatter by its ability to force the participants to undergo self-examination at the same time that they are making attempts at persuasion. It would be nice to see the national dialogue on race materialize into some form of practical action. But to distinguish dialogue (as opposed to chatter) from action, or to suggest that action be pursued in the absence of dialogue, is to degrade the power of communication that makes deliberative democracy worth pursuing. Look deeply into the national dialogue on race: there is some intense...
...petition last spring urging Cabot to combat antigay bigotry, some students yelled "faggot" at him. An athlete in four sports, Legare didn't suffer the worst abuse because, he says, "I'm not stereotypically gay." But he was once shoved and kicked. For De Vries, harassment came in the form of vulgarities whispered behind her back...
Elsewhere, efforts to form gay-straight alliances have caused a backlash from officials who don't want schools to endorse gay rights. In the most noted case, the state of Utah banned gay school clubs last year after students at Salt Lake City's East High formed such a group. The legislature got involved because the local school board feared that targeting gay clubs could provoke a lawsuit. Indeed, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund has used legal threats to shelter gay-straight alliances at more than 20 schools nationally. Ironically, the fund's primary weapon is the federal...
Julia is a computer program, a piece of genuine artificial intelligence with a crude front end (you type as if chatting on America Online). She is also spellbinding. Indeed, our conversation with Julia was so realistic my girls, convinced that a carbon-based life-form was doing the real typing, insisted the whole thing was a scam. "Do you like cats?" Julia asked us. "Nope," I typed back, nudging Zoe and Ella to watch as I tripped up the primitive program. "I like pizza." "Great," replied Julia. "I go crazy for pizza." Doh! Next, Ella, the bawdiest member...