Word: logical
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...Charlie's logic went something like this: "I'd rather you kill me than this cancer and you might learn something in the process - so bring it on, Doc". He was a very strong, young man and figured he could take a lot more chemo, a lot more surgery and a lot more radiation than most patients. It wasn't that he had the "we're going to beat this thing, Ruff" attitude. He expected death, pretty soon, but he wanted to be the victim of medical target practice, not what the ancients called the crab...
This column is a message to you that we are listening, and that we care. We don’t expect you to agree with every decision we make, or every argument that will be made in this space on alternate Mondays. But we do want to communicate the logic behind our position, and more importantly to engage in a dialogue with you about these issues...
...freshness of the play’s criticism of American economics.“You can’t divorce ‘Death of a Salesman’ from its political indictment of capitalism,” Kushner said. “The system is operating by a logic that has nothing to do with human life. [Willy Loman’s] astonishment in the face of that, as the world leaves him, is incredibly moving. I don’t think it’s dated.”Kushner took this opportunity to launch into...
...quickly to eliminate outmoded provisions in Harvard’s housing policy.Under the current policy, students’ ability to live in mixed-gender rooming situations is limited to special situations at the discretion of the individual House Masters. Policies vary widely from house to house, and the logic behind each house’s particular policy is equally inconsistent. The UC’s Rooming Choice Act calls for much needed uniformity across houses: a rooming group’s ability to live in a mixed-gender suite should be based on explicit consent from all parties, not particular...
Another EPC member, Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren Goldfarb ’69, presented draft legislation that would move the concentration choice deadline back by a semester, from the end of students’ second semester to the end of their third semester...