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...Merkushev represents the new generation of Soviet journalists in the age of glasnost," said Marvin Kalb, who directs the Barone Center...
...ensuing months, he has also found himself under attack. Reason: Penrose's central conclusion is that computers will never think because the laws of nature do not allow it. That angers many artificial-intelligence researchers. M.I.T.'s Marvin Minsky, one of the field's pioneers, is downright hostile. Says he: "Penrose is O.K. when he talks about mathematics, but most of his evidence argues against his conclusions. As far as I can tell, he is just plain wrong." Stanford psychologist and AI researcher David Rumelhart is somewhat milder: "He defines intelligence too narrowly by saying it depends on consciousness...
...course. To do that, the school offers a 7-to-1 student-teacher ratio and a high-powered academic program that includes four years of English, three of mathematics and foreign language, and two of science, history and fine arts. "We teach people how to think critically," says Marvin Shagam, a popular instructor who studied at Oxford and is trained in judo. "We don't coach for the SATs." The fees for all this are steep: tuition next year will be $16,000, although 44 of the school's 227 students currently receive financial...
...over three years to help build a display hall. Uh-uh, replied Iowa Congressman Neal Smith, chairman of the House USIA subcommittee: "We are no longer going to construct buildings and then pay to tear them down after only six months." Without funds for architect and construction contracts, warns Marvin Stone, the U.S. commissioner general for the fair, "the project will die this month." Moreover, a snub by the U.S. could jeopardize its remaining military presence in Spain...
...agree that Trump will have to struggle to clear the million dollars a day -- some say as high as $1.2 million -- he will need just to keep up payments on his $675 million debt. "I am concerned about the staying power of the Taj in the winter months," says Marvin B. Roffman, until last week a respected gaming analyst for Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia. "In a slow economy, I have reservations of whether he can break even." Trump does not take kindly to such warnings. When Roffman offered his analysis to the Wall Street Journal, calling Atlantic City...