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...earth academic, one realizes that any other writing seems like a textbook compared to Hofstadter’s fluid, everyday prose. “I Am a Strange Loop” feels like the kind of intellectually thrilling late-night dorm room conversations which don’t happen nearly as often as they should.This conversation is presented in pleasant bite-sized chunks, with each chapter divided into sections with clever headings. The concepts set forth in each segment of a chapter magically coalesce into a clear set of logical ideas which are easy to understand, but hard to articulate.Although...
...before the Ad Board, in a 1999 issue of the student magazine Perspective.Another interviewee, asked what the administration could have done better concerning her case, said, “Everything. I’ll say it again: everything...the administration doesn’t understand when something like this happens to a student.”Catherine Shapiro, the secretary of the Ad Board, said the board’s procedures for dealing with peer disputes have changed since 1999 to make the system “timelier” and to give students an opportunity to be heard while...
...that. As for Dawson’s view of things, he just wants to be playing football next year. “I think I have good chance of being selected in the later rounds,” he says. “If that doesn’t happen, which is a very real possibility, I will probably know within about an hour after the draft.”If he does not go, the back hopes to find himself in some team’s camp to earn his pro-status that way. If all else fails...
...done or not but what we should do about those that come back. Politics is part of our country. I think there is one aspect of the war that everyone agrees with whether it is the right, left or the middle: we completely underestimated what was going to happen with the Shiites and the Sunnis. And we certainly didn't understand how long this war would go on. Ultimately I think we will be able to look back in history and know what this war was about and what it has done...
...sides kept to a minimum discussion of the painful shared history that had aggravated tensions between them, instead trumpeting plans to cooperate on the environment. Few concrete details emerged from the meetings, although a normally truculent Beijing did agree for the first time to actively discuss what should happen after Kyoto. But the summit's amicability showed that environment could provide the basis for safe diplomacy...