Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans are aware that voters will not rally to a party that doesn't extend the war on entitlements to wealthy contributors as well as less powerful interests. "It obviously harms our credibility," says Arizona Republican John McCain, a leading backer of the idea of creating an independent commission. "And that's why, over time, we're going to succeed...
...however logical this downbeat argument may sound, it doesn't appear to be prevailing among scholars who ponder such issues for a living. That isn't to say philosophers are suddenly resurrecting the idea of a distinct, immaterial soul that governs the body for a lifetime and then drifts off to its reward. They're philosophers, not theologians. When talking about some conceivably nonphysical property of human beings, they talk not about "souls" but about "consciousness" and "mind." The point is simply that as the information age advances and computers get brainier, philosophers are taking the ethereal existence of mind...
...Blue's chess skills, but many doubted whether it is a thinking machine. It uses "brute force"--zillions of trivial calculations, rather than a few strokes of strategic Big Think. ("You don't invite forklifts to weight-lifting competitions," an organizer of exclusively human chess tournaments said about the idea of man-vs.-machine matches.) On the other hand, there are chess programs that work somewhat like humans. They size up the state of play and reason strategically from there. And though they aren't good enough to beat Kasparov, they're good enough to leave the average Homo sapiens...
Carnesale said the search will start where the last one left off, focusing on other candidates who were interested in the position two years ago. The search will be somewhat different this time, though, as the University now has a better idea of the traits necessary to succeed in this position, he said...
...pretty good idea," said John R. Brooks '97, who is a Crimson editor. "Not a whole lot of people use the JCR. This will probably turn it into a real dorm hangout...