Word: notionally
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...entirely antic belief that bigotry is something that happens in other places, to other people, is dependent upon a notion of Harvard as somehow detached, exempt from what occurs outside of its consoling walls. Harvard becomes an airless alter-environment in which intolerance is impolitesse. It is part of what keeps the closeted in their tombs of stifled denial...
...expressions of homophobia are especially significant in that they occurred within the context of Harvard's randomized Houses, which are themselves organized around the notion of a placid diversity. This diversity is one that is in fact all about sameness through the controlled introduction of difference with the express purpose of assimilation. The phantasmatic nature of that equivalence-through-admixture is borne out by the recent homophobic actions of those who would entirely reject any affinity (real or imagined) with queers. Proximity is not dialogue...
There was something wildly irrational in the Kremlin's thinking, starting with the notion that a second Chechnya war would be more winnable than the first one. Three years ago, a demoralized and disastrously led Russian army was savaged by Chechnya's hastily assembled guerrillas. The only obvious difference now is that there are more Chechen fighters. Since the bloody debacle of 1994-'96, the Russian army's disintegration has continued. Budget cuts and corruption have undermined its strength and reduced training to a bare minimum, while morale has dropped even lower. But by some bizarre process of mental alchemy...
...shopping agents moves out of the lab. Even now, folks at M.I.T. and IBM are preparing for a world in which every transaction becomes a complex trade deal between a pricing bot acting for the site and a shopping bot acting for you. "Dynamic pricing, that's the big notion," says Professor Pattie Maes, director of the software-agents group at the M.I.T. media lab. "After all, fixed prices have been around only for a couple of hundred years...
Preposterous is a good descriptor of the notion that children's books should be excluded from the New York Times best-seller list. What differentiates children's books from others? Is it the lack of a good story, worthy characters or beautiful writing? Of course not. Within the pages of "children's literature" you can find humor, adventure, philosophy and romance, all elegantly expressed. The sole difference is the age of the protagonist. Perhaps the success of the Harry Potter series will awaken many to the treasures to be found on the shelves in the children's section. DIANE MASLA...