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PLEASE don't misunderstand us. MAC rats support, indeed encourage, the popular pursuit of physical fitness at all levels of skill and interest, just as celebrated pianists might promote an appreciation of music among the general public. But never having taken piano lessons, I have no more a right to bang the keys in Paine Hall than the talker has to bang the weights...
Hegel, a great German philosopher whom I have been lucky enough to avoid reading, came up with the concept of dialectism. As I misunderstand it, Hegel sees a world with ideas in constant conflict: an original idea or state of existence (called the "thesis") automatically leads to the development of its own contradiction (called the "anitithesis"). The thesis and antithesis, after struggling with each other, form the "synthesis." Great Thinkers love this idea. Marx, Levi-Strauss an similar types found Great Truths in this idea of Hegel...
...curtail hours. Warns Tom Kring of the California Regional Family Planning Council: "The cutbacks may force women seeking first-trimester abortions into waiting longer and longer," an outcome that poses greater medical risks. Some counselors fear that the people in the poor neighborhoods served by Title X clinics will misunderstand the message of the latest court ruling. Many women may conclude that all counseling services have been halted. As a result, they may stop visiting the centers and receiving preventive care -- a primary goal of Title X funding. Brenda Alston, 29, who is a patient at Rust's clinic...
...Americans keep behaving like Americans, we will keep on encountering the same problems. One potential problem, as Kennan suggested and Saddam demonstrated, is that other countries will misunderstand us -- although the gulf war should clarify our notion of the boundaries of "permissible behavior," at least for the time being...
...misunderstand me. Sometimes it's necessary, not to mention quite fun, to judge others. In this case, however, the majority has chosen to counsel not only the students of Harvard (who actually read The Crimson), but also their peers at Yale (who read that other paper). I can see it now: Yalies scrambling to read the latest advice from the philosopher kings--and queens--in Cambridge...