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...trip back to town when a switchman got distracted. Hewins left behind a wife and three children, who were poor even before his death. His widow sued but lost at every level. Had the train merely chopped off Hewins' leg, the railroad would have paid. But in the perverse logic of that time, when a man died, he took his legal claims with him. And so the thinking went for most of the century, until something unheard of began to happen. The courts started to put a dollar value on a life--after death...
...almost never repeated a course he taught,” said Warren Goldfarb, Pearson professor of modern mathematics and mathematical logic...
...ignoramus: "That's why we got G.W. in office! We're going to kick some Palestinian ass tonight!" Many of the other works express concerns about cycles of violence. With a simple, iconic style reminiscent of instruction manuals, Seth Tobacman's "Not Enough People Have Died," takes the logic of punishing everyone who's ever given money to terrorists ("Let's start with Ronald Reagan," he writes) to its absurd extreme - eliminate everyone who's ever bought a tank of gas or used a light switch. Other contributions by the likes of Tom Tomorrow, Sue Coe and Spain Rodriguez give...
...Regardless of the depths of their mutual loathing right now, there is an inevitability about both sides returning to the logic that produced Oslo. The alternative is to embrace the present bloody stalemate as their lot for the foreseeable future. And the logic that produced Oslo, which also remains the cornerstone of U.S. policy, is contained in United Nations Resolution 242 - Israeli withdrawal from the territories captured in 1967 on a basis that guarantees Israel's security and recognition by its Arab neighbors...
...prodded by a U.N. diplomat and a group of 10 European and Latin American ambassadors. Lame duck President Andres Pastrana bet his presidency and career on peace and he may be the first Colombian president to turn over a peace process in motion. But this is Colombia. By the logic of a place where civil conflict has been nearly constant since independence, peace in motion means warriors on the march...