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...letter sent to the university newspaper, Helder characterized himself as "spiritually well rounded" and wrote of a conspiracy to enslave the masses, pillage the environment and suppress human potential. It was not your usual antigovernment rant but something mistier and more sweeping. "Whether it's logic, meditation, channeling, astral projection or ghosts, all are ways of knowing," he wrote...
...into a sort of solemn priesthood of the computer, purposely separated from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive to its breakdown in everyday life, they often annoy friends by asking them to rephrase their questions more logically. --TIME, April...
Unfortunately, the weakening of Todd also makes the character at times incongruous and, worse, uninteresting. The text too often calls for him to use wit, intelligence and logic, making it unbelievable that he could so deftly educate Anthony in wigmaking, arrange his daughter’s rescue from bedlam and lure the judge to his death chamber. Margo is even prevented from enjoying the brilliant humor in an abbreviated “A Little Priest...
Using equivalent logic, I am not going to miss my closest friends from Harvard. Of course, there will be the expected life changes that will send friends off to distant shores or distant men, but I am confident that my closest friends will forever hold important parts in my life: vacation buddy, psychologist, bridesmaid, godparent, shopping partner...
...while we were high school seniors, as he saw Harvard in my AOL profile. What started as hello blossomed into a slew of friendly e-mails and phone calls. More than anything or anyone else, chatting with Mr. Ben convinced me to choose Crimson over blue or brown. My logic was simple: if there were others in Cambridge as warm as he was, then college would be cake. Though the Harvard-as-cake analogy needed some serious tweaking, I was right about...