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...What, precisely, is the mind, the elusive entity where intelligence, decision making, perception, awareness and sense of self reside? Where is it located? How does it work? Does it arise from purely physical processes-pulses of electricity zapping from brain cell to brain cell, helped along their way by myriad complex chemicals? Or is it something beyond the merely physical-something ethereal that might be close to the spiritual concept of the soul...
Charges against Vesco outside Cuba are myriad if not of mythic proportions. One is the 1989 U.S. indictment of Vesco in absentia for facilitating the narcotics-trafficking activities of Colombian drug kingpin Carlos Lehder-Rivas, who from 1978 to '80 was using the Bahamas as a transshipment point for cocaine. Vesco was living in the Bahamas at that time and is thought to have helped Lehder bribe influential Bahamian officials to look the other way while coke-laden planes landed at and took off from Norman's Cay, a Bahamian island on which Lehder had built an outsize landing strip...
...50th Anniversary Class report demonstratesthat most of my classmates are either stillproductively employed in a first or later career,or actively engaged in a myriad of activities ofintellectual, cultural or sporting interests...
Clinton, a man of myriad political skills and few convictions, has found his calling: protector of the welfare state. Protector of Big Bird and school lunches, of Social Security and Medicare, of Davis-Bacon (which mandates inflated union-scale wages for federal construction contracts) and affirmative action (now under a temporizing White House "review "), of the legacy of F.D.R. and L.B.J...
Hoffman will continue to teach and will remain active the affairs of the CES, but he said he is anxious to be relieved of the myriad of administrative tasks required of him as chair...