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...replied that he "would not agree to surmise" that we did so. Why can't U.S. Administration officials simply speak the truth about our invasion of Iraq? The indisputable fact is that President George W. Bush justified the attack on Iraq based on intelligence that proved to be wrong. Gilbert H. Vieira Colfax, California...
Notable absences this year include Chemistry 15, “Inorganic Chemistry” and Economics 1030, “Economics and Psychology.” Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert, the popular teacher of Psychology 1, “Introduction to Psychology,” will not offer the course this year. It will be offered solely by Medical School Professor of Opthamology Jeremy M. Wolfe...
...GILBERT H. VIEIRA -- Colfax, Calif...
This is what we see in the Gilbert case, the fusion of our lives with theirs in one grand and pathetic clich in which all lives look pretty much alike. We go round and round with Gilbert: Gilbert suddenly wondering if Emily might get better, if one of those white-coated geniuses will come up with a cure. Gilbert realizing that once Emily is gone, he will go too, since her way of life, however wretched, was their way of life. He is afraid for them both. In The Merchant of Venice Portia says that mercy is "twice blessed...
Laws are unlikely to be changed by such cases: for every modification one can think of, there are too many loopholes and snares. What Gilbert did in fact erodes the whole basis of law, which is to keep people humane and civilized. Yet Gilbert was humane, civilized and wrong: a riddle. In the end we want the law intact and Gilbert free, so that society wins on both counts. What the case proves, however, is that society is helpless to do anything for Gilbert, for Emily or for itself. All we can do is recognize a real tragedy when...