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Anthropologist Barnett, reflecting on the brokerage business, says, "You can't do it intuitively anymore." He adds, "The next generation of computer architecture, be it massively parallel programming or 64-bit addressing or hyper- or meta-computing, essentially is going to be data mining where the data will be searched in even finer granularity to discover patterns that even this generation...
First, there's a distrust of recitation as a means of character building or education. More importantly, though, Harvard people, in their hyper-educated sophistication, are for the most part uncomfortable with the notion of morality and with the public discussion of virtues and vices and their distinctions. That, I think, is troubling...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...rave-rockers Aerosmith, a pimple-faced lad summons up an image of himself on his home computer and magically erases those zits. Then he ups the ante. Feeding the computer an image of his dream woman and, donning the mandatory virtual-reality gear, he steps into a higher, hornier hyper reality where all his lusts are gratified. He and his girlfriend ride off on a motorcycle, make cyberlove, hitchhike a ride on a biplane and sky surf off the wing. If there's a rock 'n' roll virtual heaven for teenage testosterosis, this might...
...looks back with nostalgia on the role of young Lindo. "It was a great role--there was a lot to memorize, and I had to be crazy and neurotic all day, but if fit me because I'm hyper and it's easy for me to be that way. It was challenging, though, to have to cry--I had to force myself...