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...During the Academy Awards ceremony, the announcer said The Departed was a remake of a Japanese movie. It's such a big joke! How can that happen? Nobody checked...
...constant vacillation between Cambridge and Washington was a campus joke by 1960 when Schlesinger had become one of Kennedy’s most important political confidants...
...particularly intriguing aspect of consciousness is the pleasure of hearing a melody, reading Shakespeare, discovering an idea or appreciating a good joke. Moreover, most people are endowed with compassion toward others. Nothing in biological or physical science teaches us how to synthesize that kind of consciousness. How could those attributes arise unless they are already in nature? If assemblages of neurons can't be viewed as the building blocks of consciousness, then consciousness must be a primary principle. Robert G. Tabor Austin, Texas...
...know for a fact that there are people in this world who work harder than me, who are smarter than me, who have accomplished more than me, but were never offered a place in the Harvard Class of 2008. Most never even applied. I like to joke that I am a white Michiganian accepted on affirmative action—at Harvard just because I was born and raised in Guatemala...
...national issue to spark controversy against an oft-criticized sect of our population? After all, the days of politicians denouncing gangsta rap and smashing tapes on national TV are long gone. And besides a few Eminem references about Dick Cheney’s wife and the occasional hunting joke, the vice president’s name isn’t being trashed by rappers with anywhere near the same kind of ferocity as was the case with Dan Quayle in the early...