Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that week, Republicans all over the Hill who opposed the McCain bill were talking about the DiVall poll. Never mind that the survey had been partly funded by the tobacco industry and the questions had been written in a way that tarred the bill. "If this is a crisis in America," said Gramm, "America doesn't know it." Flying with Lott to Barry Goldwater's funeral, Speaker Newt Gingrich had also made it clear how desperately the House wanted to avoid a big fight with its base supporters before November...
...recover rationality after being irrational, to recover a normal life, is a great thing," declared John Nash, who awoke from a quarter-century of schizophrenic debilitation to accept the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nash's life, set forth in the new biography, A Beautiful Mind, by journalist Sylvia Nasar, is a miracle of resurrection. Mindful of that fragile journey, Nash pondered, "But maybe it's not such a great thing. Suppose you have an artist. He's rational. But suppose he cannot paint. He can function normally. Is it really a cure? Is it really salvation?" Consider the tragedy...
DEATH REVEALED. CARLOS CASTANEDA, believed to be 72, enigmatic personality who was either an unfairly vilified anthropologist or a wildly inventive novelist, depending on whether his mind-bending encounters with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer are taken as fact or fiction; who died on April 27; of liver failure; in Los Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment...
...struggle to comprehend what action is necessary and what "action" even means in the latest crisis, perhaps we should examine our own cultural awareness as we prepare to embark into the ever-shrinking global village. While Gaps are opening up all around the world, let us not fail to mind the gaps in cultural education that extend beyond sushi and the french...
WASHINGTON: Never mind that Congress wanted the line-item veto in the first place; the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that granting the President power to tweak bills violates the constitutional separation of powers. Of course, that will only make the issue even more of a political gold mine -- and if it requires a constitutional amendment, then...