Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking for strong logic and analytical skills, good communication skills, and creativity," said Glass...
Some other course ideas which have been discussed in the Verba report or council deliberations include a course on strategic behavior, which would teach students how to determine the optimal bargaining strategy in asking for a raise, for example. Courses on probability, symbolic logic, econometrics, demographics and mathematical modeling are other possibilities for new courses. In more applied topics, new courses should be developed which give a good one-semester introduction to more traditional mathematics. For example, a course that covered interesting topics in algebra, geometry and analysis without going into excruciating detail could be a good...
...ignores the overriding desire of many of those people to escape from the grinding poverty of subsistence farming. Greider also slips when he tries to blame multinational corporations and international financiers--the favorite punching bags of populists--for the very events the book's subtitle ascribes to "the manic logic of global capitalism...
Again, a tight race. Eighty percent of the last 20 winners have been the films with the most nominations in their year. That logic would favor The English Patient, with its potent combination of literate filmmaking, pretty pictures and even prettier stars. Secrets Lies and Fargo are not everyone's cup of tea, but those who like them love them. Jerry Maguire would normally be D.O.A. without a director nod, but don't underestimate the Marisa Tomei factor: studio output in a field of itchy new-wavism can pull off big surprises. Shine is easily the least accomplished film...
...little frightening that human beings are still so fond of black-and-white pictures, the binary digits 0 and 1 or the good guy and the bad guy. What technology achieved with fuzzy logic several years ago still seems to be the exception for human judgment. The Swiss are the same human beings as the Germans, the French or the Americans. They are not angels, but they are not devils either. Maybe everyone should start to think in shades of gray. STEPHAN LOEB Binningen, Switzerland...