Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saddest consequence of randomization is that in forcing me to integrate, I have lost my freedom of choice. The logic of a Civil Rights movement that attempted to make more options accessible to minorities has been warped to justify Harvard's attempt to deny options to everyone...
...Iranians don't rely just on logic to press their case. They cite treaties with the Soviet Union dating back to 1921 and 1940 that declare the sea a common lake between the two countries. Tehran is willing to negotiate a new agreement but demands veto rights over any aspect it doesn't like. If Iran's interests are not taken into account, says Ardebili, it will deal with what it considers illegal activities in the Caspian by using "constructive--and possibly destructive" countermeasures...
...film means to be beguiling, and many will find it so. But in this viewer's alternative reality, Sliding Doors is way too strained, in narrative logic and in performance, to work. Paltrow either whines or twinkles; Hannah works overtime at being winsome; Lynch has not even a pinch of larcenous charm; Tripplehorn is reduced to stridency and humiliation. The actors appear to be on trial for unknown offenses, and what could be blithe and affecting instead comes on like--oh, like the Spanish Inquisition...
...this logic, Harvard will hope that its rivals, like UMass, continue to lose and the teams that beat the Crimson (Duke, Princeton and Hobart) continue to play impressively...
...framework of an established hierarchy of truth and reality. In The Healing, bearded ladies and unicorn girls are endowed with as much credence as the subjects of her husband's anthropological research and Paul Simon's lyrics are as respectable a system for understanding the world as the logic Harlan learns at night school...