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...course, and also explains the tournament's wider efforts to foster a throwback feel. Part of the appeal of any sport is the link it provides to previous generations. But because the Masters is the only major golf tournament to return to the same course every year, the notion of following in the footsteps of one's forebears is literal: at Augusta, golfers walk over the Hogan, Sarazen and Nelson bridges, and the tournament is opened each year by "honorary starters" - past champions too infirm to play 18 holes but fit enough to drive off the ceremonial first tee shot...
...born of the Cognition and Choreography group's search for what team member Scott deLahunta calls "an artificially intelligent choreographic entity." A piece of software, in other words, that could "think" for itself and provide choreographers with new options for physical expression. It's an "out-on-the-horizon" notion, admits DeLahunta, who studies the intersection between art and science at the Amsterdam School of the Arts. But it's a technological dream that McGregor is energetically chasing. "We've got people working on software who understand the algorithms and engineering of artificial intelligence," says DeLahunta. "We hope to have...
...April Fool's joke - local newspapers put coverage of the Prime Minister's diarrhea on the front page. Hospitalized for food poisoning, Samak had to pull out of several cabinet meetings. The Prime Minister's fate, though, may be the retribution wished by many social activists, stung by the notion of $300,000 being spent on a single meal, on those who partake in the Lebua's "once-in-a-lifetime inspirational dinner...
...after all, volunteer for the Army and that is the key distinction between this army and the army of the Vietnam War. But even as I ask for that understanding I'm almost certain that you won't be able to obtain it. Even Shakespeare, with his now overused notion of soldiers as a "band of brothers," fails to capture the bonds, the sense of responsibility to each other, among soldiers. In many ways, Iraq has become my home (by the time my deployment ends I will have spent more time here than anywhere else in the army...
Embarking on an effort to build shields rather than swords was a characteristic Reagan gesture?a clear and simple assertion from his gut challenging the accepted wisdom that defensive systems are "destabilizing." His notion that missiles could be knocked out in space had a wistful though dangerous appeal; it suggested that the nation could be defended without earthly sacrifice and bloodshed...