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...what of the following sentence: "Unlike earlier periods when one demonstrated one's intellect by how much one knew, i.e., how many facts one has at her/his command, increasingly we recognize the mark of intellect to be the capacity independently to analyze, manipulate, synthesize and critically interpret information in the interest of problem solving." In other words, it is now more important to know how to think than to have anything concrete to think about. Perhaps facts can be imported from Japan. Now, may we see a show of hands on all this...
...start earlier on the color correction of photographs, a technique performed on the computer imaging screens to ensure that pictures appear on the page with the same richness they have in the original photographs. "People still make the critical decisions," Stelzner insists. "There's no technology that can interpret color better than the human eye." A reassuring thought, because the object of all this effort is to turn out more pleasing pages for the eyes of our readers...
Sexual assault cases thus fell under the disciplinary board's loose prohibition against "behavior unbecoming a Harvard student." Ad Board members generally interpret this clause to refer to behavior that violates Massachusetts state law, says Janet A. Viggiani, co-chair of the task force...
...written statement following the fatal stabbing of Bunting Fellow Mary Joe Frug earlier this month, Wilson said, "The reaction of the entire Radcliffe community is one of shock, sadness and anger." But what is that "entire Radcliffe community" for which she speaks? Many would interpret that phrase as meaning the group of administrators, staff members and visiting scholars who work at Radcliffe, as well as the active members of organizations like the Radcliffe Union of Students...
Interviewing Matisse investigates the individual nature of experience. Each woman uses anecdotes from her own past to shape and interpret the telephone conversation. In many ways this preoccupation with their own experiences alienates the women, but it also illustrates that each person necessarily approaches life differently. Tuck may have conveyed this more effectively if Lily and Molly had been less similar--as it is, the two women are nearly interchangeable...