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...popular class that even senior Faculty members might devote their time to? If they were not so interested, might not the Dean of the Faculty attempt to persuade them to do so, either through the Core or outside of it? It seems that the only loser would be the Standing Committee on the Core; would its loss of power be a bad thing for Harvard education...
...persuade them to do so, either through the Core or outside of it? Might not the Dean of the Faculty be able to use a Core slush fund to provide "incentives," like the existence of additional paid teaching fellow positions for graduate students? It seems that the only loser would be the Core Program Review Committee; would its loss of power be a bad thing for Harvard education...
...lest they be subjected to interminable ribbing from the others. Hence, when the boys tested me by inquiring what the extent of my sexual prowess was, I nervously blurted something that probably came out, "Yeah, man, of course I've had sex, what am I some kind a loser virgin?" Then when they begged for details, I pieced together a titillating narrative from what little sexual knowledge I possessed--from movies, romantic novels, and sex ed class--to give a convincing account of my nonexistent sexual escapades...
...about my virginity, yet I saw many of my classmates continue the self-deception. I asked male friends, who were virgins, why they lied about their sexual experience. They gave me the obvious range of answers: "if everyone knew I was a virgin they will think I'm a loser"; "I won't get into that finals club"; "everyone else is doing it, I don't want to be the only male virgin on campus"; or "girls are not attracted to virgin guys, they would rather be with a guy who knows what he's doing...
...ability to set traps, hatch plots, smell danger and generally enact the violent and paranoid predator from which the human race evolved and to which all great chess players return. What's left is playing percentages. Deep Blue refused to follow a strategy it recognized as a likely loser, even one that any decent grand master could see offered the best chances for victory due to, say, a blunder by a rattled foe. The machine just didn...