Word: logical
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...than you would think. And not just obvious ideas like killer aliens or making your children really, really small. Kaufman's ideas for movies (Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) come from the part of your psyche you avoid. His scripts upend time, logic and the laws of physics, and in the process of writing them, he has upended many of the conventions of Hollywood films. But what makes Kaufman, 45, the screenwriter to watch in Hollywood isn't his ideas or that he has created sadly sweet protagonists more convincing than Woody Allen...
...designs that sign the air in radically different ways. Angled cantilevers, S-curved walls, no obvious symmetries? No problem. "The message I hope to have sent," he says, "is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: it's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself." --By Richard Lacayo
...century, after a pendulum swing, B.F. Skinner depicted the mind as a blank slate. Now the pendulum is swinging again. Harvard, which lured Pinker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year, seems poised to keep its tradition alive. --BY ROBERT WRIGHT, author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
...interpreted as appeasement. "We have to convince them that they must put an end to their violence," says Rosa Díez, a Basque Socialist member of the European Parliament. "We will not pay a political price to end terrorism." Alas, terrorists aren't necessarily swayed by political logic. Despite high hopes in the Basque Country and elsewhere in Spain that ETA would declare a truce, the organization has been silent on that prospect. Zabaleta says that since a previous ETA cease-fire in 1998, which it broke 14 months later, the organization has been split between older members...
...evident from the outset. Although the proposal has been roundly criticized by members of the Faculty, changing the College’s calendar so that fall semester ends before winter break seems increasingly like a foregone conclusion—even if many of us still vigorously question the logic. But moving fall finals is not as simple as starting the year earlier and condensing reading period—both aspects of the proposal we strongly oppose—it will also free up the entire month of January. And at Harvard, no time can be wasted in idleness...