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...that Hussein means "beautiful." One conservative observer insinuated that Obama, as a Christian with a Muslim name, might be marked for death by even our allies in the Islamic world, if they think he converted from Islam (for the record, he was never Muslim). By that ornately twisted logic, though, one might add that it was the martyrdom of Hussein in the year 680, beheaded at Karbala in a clash with the caliphate, that gave rise to 1400 years or so of Sunni/Shi'a violence. So how on earth could Obama be a fair broker in Iraq...
...consequently biases any potentially helpful advice they might proffer.Of course, the process of education does not and should not terminate with the receipt of the sheepskin on commencement; certainly, even the most experienced of professors gain from hearing the insights of their most talented students. But to carry this logic to its extreme, and install the whim of students as the arbiter of course instruction, is manifestly imprudent.The perspective that puts students and masters on the same intellectual plane distorts the proper order of education.Traditionally the purpose of university is to maintain and pass on intact to rising generations...
...Framed as the memoir of torturer Antonio Rojas Martens, a member of the secret police now in prison, it tells the story of his involvement in the murder of Frederigo and Enrique Salinas.As in his earlier work, Kertész exhibits an understanding of how a distorted and cruel logic arises out of the inhumane. In “Fatelessness,” the young protagonist Gyuri is nostalgic for the “clearer and simpler” life in the concentration camps. In “Detective Story,” the cold and matter-of-fact style...
...winner of the prestigious Crafoord Prize for his work on the behavioral patterns of animals, Trivers will deliver a seminar tomorrow afternoon entitled “The Logic of Self Deception and Recent Israeli Behavior...
...talk is being advertised with an abridged title—“The Logic of Self-Deception”—partly because some faculty were “uncomfortable” with the longer title, according to Trivers’s host, biology professor David A. Haig...