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...personal experience. Appropriately, Hofstadter devotes much discussion to the reasons that symbols, analogies, and empathy (or, as he calls it, “Varying Degrees of Being Another”) actually work. This book is a work of art, unabashedly self-referential on every level.Along the way, by the method of argument through anecdotes, we learn a lot about the author and his own journey through life, as he ceaselessly ponders questions about the fundamental nature of conscious existence. During his childhood, little Doug’s family realized that his younger sister was mysteriously incapable of understanding or using...
...persistently urged to become citizens - to former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin. A few members of the democratic opposition still left now reproach Yeltsin for choosing a successor who dismantled the fragile freedoms Yeltsin had inaugurated. But the point was not his choice of successor as much as the method of succession, forgoing fair and transparent elections, simply announcing his resignation and appointment of Putin as his successor on New Year's Eve in 2000, followed by a token, predetermined vote. By then, of course, Yeltsin's priorities were less lofty: safety and immunity for himself and his family and inner...
...Supreme Court’s five-to-four ruling on the intact dilation and extraction method of abortion on Wednesday was hardly unexpected, given its shifting ideological balance. Nevertheless, the decision to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act marked many unfortunate firsts for the new Roberts Court. At best, this reversal of precedent is worrisome, poaching abortion rights today; at worst, it is simply wrong—the first step toward completely denying a woman’s right to choose tomorrow...
This first abortion case for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is the first time the Supreme Court has supported a ban of any abortion method or barred a specific medical procedure. Despite being couched in the language of decisions past, the ruling in fact ignores the spirit of decades of precedent in order to set its own, dangerous, one. From here, there can be no question of the court’s intended direction, succinctly, albeit chillingly, put by the author of the majority opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy...
...speeches Sunday night, Sarkozy and Royal both opened their ranks to backers of vanquished candidates, suggesting the two weeks up to the May 6 final will doubtless be busy with closed-door bargaining with Bayrou. But even Bayrou voters seem torn on whom to support. "In terms of the method and manner she'd govern France, Sego is closest to Bayrou," comments Pascal Benazet, a 34-year-old financial marketing researcher at Bayrou's campaign headquarters after the first round results came in. "But in terms of economic policy, Sarkozy is closer to Bayrou." And like everyone else looking...