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...words of the New York Times). But almost nothing in this play is smart enough for satire, or even makes much sense. The project the agent is seeking for the client she doesn't want outed is... a play about two gay lovers. (There's some twisted logic here, but don't ask.) The actor, meanwhile, is involved in a relationship with a waiflike rent boy - who has a girlfriend of his own on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Lame Little Dog | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

...Government Gary King or Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Robert J. Sampson teaching students empirical methods with a focus on politics or sociology. The analytical reasoning component of the proposed system includes such courses but comes up short of mandating them. While other methods of analytical reasoning like logic are important, a statistics-oriented course should be required...

Author: By Edward L. Glaeser | Title: Methodology Matters | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...same logic applies to professors. To teach a class full of eager faces is an inspiring task; the knowledge that students simply don’t care about their subject matter is not. Professors become more likely to engage their charges in a heated debate, work closely with them, or just show up and teach rather than hand the duty down to a teaching assistant...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: What Brown Can Do for You | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...pose a real threat. "Any time we have evidence of anything like this, suspects are brought in, interrogated, and held if justified during investigations," he says. Abdelhazak Rabehi, a 30 year-old baggage handler whose job depended on the badge of which he was stripped, aired similar logic. "If I'd been a threat to the airport, I'd be a threat to society: they'd have put me in handcuffs instead of taking away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Were Paris Airport Workers Victims of Racial Profling? | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...That, frankly, is a self-serving evasion for anyone who advocated invading Iraq. Blaming Rumsfeld for the debacle it became reminds me of Trotskyists trying to rescue Bolshevism by blaming its grotesque consequences on Stalin's "implementation," rather than on its inner logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Rumsfeld Be the Scapegoat? | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

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