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...always snapping back to the day of Dunne’s death. Didion recounts the events of this day eight separate times. This repetition counteracts the effects of what Didion terms “magical thinking.” Magical thinking is a form of denial combined with childlike logic which causes Didion to believe that if she does certain things, then her husband will return: the game will be over and everyone will stop pretending he is dead. While denial is a common reaction to tragedy, Didion takes it to wretched levels of absurdity, demanding an autopsy...
...borrowed as a band gets on its feet. CARAR says it recognizes that the real difficulty is in cornering the funds to purchase communal amps and a drum kit. Their solution here is once again networking; if the younger musicians are all friends with their elders, the hopeful logic follows, they will be able to borrow the necessary equipment.Still, loaned is never as safe as bought. Whether or not fostering a community leads to more communal use of property depends heavily on the generosity of more established bands. To return to the example of Blanks., this generosity can most definitely...
...best way for Harvard as an institution to ensure the safety of its students and protect itself from liability. Policy or no policy, students will always make their own individual choices depending on the situation. The directive is clearly extremely unfortunate, but it also has legitimate logic behind it. The explicit “NOT” in the policy serves as a legal shield for the University were a non-disabled student to sustain injuries (fatal or otherwise) helping a disabled friend. Were the AEO to encourage students to aid disabled Harvard students, Harvard could be held financially liable...
That’s the warped logic behind My Chemical Romance’s latest outing, “The Ghost of You.” In the video, the band is alternately performing at a USO dance and forming the First Emo Division (who went down in history for their valiant efforts in pouting the enemy to death...
...Democrats, by contrast, sounded almost pleased. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, personally urged Bush to consider Miers, sources say. A senior administration official, asked about the logic of the choice, points to Democratic support and the fact that, as Bush said in introducing her, Miers had been "a pioneer in the field of law"-a woman who was active in the Southern legal community at a time it was dominated by men, becoming the first female president of both the Dallas Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas. Sure enough, Reid issued a statement...