Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agree with the idea that the Chinese government has some very negative aspects, and that it is in everyone's best interest for China to reform. However, the tone of your editorial Staff editorial, Oct. 14) on Chairman Jiang Zemin's visit here was far too critical and was offensive to some Chinese classmates of mine. Considering that The Crimson's editorial was the "pro" article in a set of disagreeing essays on Jiang's visit makes me wonder if you even conceived that the badly researched information you were presenting as factual could be contested. I was a student...
...China to be distrustful of Christianity. It is questionable whether the American view of individual human rights is fully compatible with highly collective Chinese culture. The philosophy behind Chinese law and society is "Rights for the group before rights for the individual." American law is based on the opposite idea but is not inherently any more justifiable. Intellectuals in China, who have some exposure to Western culture, often fight for individual human rights, but this crusade has yet to be embraced by the masses. The protesters at Tiananmen were elite university students, not common workers. Whether or not a cultural...
When computers were mediocre typewriters 10 years ago, few people cared about this country's income gap in computer ownership. With the rise of the Internet, however, a new buzzphrase has sprung out of the John F. Kennedy School and it's ilk: "equal access to information." The idea is that the computer itself is of limited value; it matters as an access point to the world of information online...
While ignoring the new frog problem at this stage is excusable, ignoring global warming is not. We have heard the idea for many years; we know which pollutants create the most damage; and we have a fairly good idea of what steps we could take to alleviate the problem. And so the Union of Concerned Scientists has asked Clinton to bring up the issue at the international conference in Kyoto this December...
...accuses evolutionary psychologists in general (and presumably Pinker as well) of indulging a "penchant for narrow and often barren speculation" and "pure guesswork in the cocktail-party mode." Pinker has even less patience with those who would confuse an evolutionary explanation for how the human mind evolved with the idea that our fate is genetically predetermined. Genes, he says, "do not dictate what we should accept or how we should live...