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...would not seek to go to a school where ideological diversity is completely maximized. It is unpleasant to face constant disagreement, and college is supposed to provide more than challenging conversations. Even so, it’s a shame that it’s so easy to live on campus for months or even years without really experiencing what psychologists call cognitive dissonance, the feeling of holding two contradictory ideas at the same time. While questioning our positions generally feels unnatural, few things are as essential. I sincerely hope that after four years here, we will be more inclined...
...begun to take time to glance over the house list and to read over emails of upcoming IOP events, and despite assignments, I’ve rescheduled my day in order to go see General Petreaus speak on Iraq, to see Shakespeare’s Hamlet, to enjoy a live bluegrass band, and to take advantage of senior thesis talks and half-price student tickets to Don Giovanni in Boston...
...arrive at a promised land, perhaps confirming today’s theoretical insights, perhaps in a future form that will have evolved significantly. But if not, in the unlikely event that the work on which our generation has labored doesn’t make it into textbooks, I can live with that. It’s what happens along the way that radically enriches us. The wrestling with mystery, not the ascension to resolution, defines who we are. Brian Greene ’84, a physics professor at Columbia University, is the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe...
...life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars. It is the thin bleeding line within the thin blue line, the anthroposphere within the biosphere, the part of the material world in which we live out our lives. It is ourselves...
...trial and appeal were based on the fact that different counties counted the ballots differently," Ben Ginsberg, a lawyer for Coleman who also represented George W. Bush in the 2000 Florida recount, tells TIME. "Whether or not a voter's vote counts shouldn't depend on where they live." (See the top 10 unfortunate political one-liners...