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...petitioners object that the speech selection committee consists of six professors and administrators and receives no student input as it chooses the student orators for Commencement...
...defend Taiwan against a Chinese assault. Or to go after Saddam and his chemical-tipped Scuds. Why does Bush dislike the ICC? Obviously, he does not want international bodies passing judgment on U.S. nationals involved in military actions not sanctified by U.N. resolutions. For the others, the object is precisely the opposite. They want to entangle Gulliver in myriad ropes, to keep him safely tied down. But great powers do not like international institutions they cannot dominate, where it is one nation, one vote. This is the crux of the matter, and it riles the European soul that the giant...
...express itself via stunning light shows that may suggest confusion or disappointment through different hues and patterns. Or, if Ada wants to direct visitors' attention to something in particular, it can illuminate colored lamps in the floor that outline the route they should take to find the desired object. Ada, named after 19th century British programming pioneer Ada Lovelace, performs all these feats thanks to neural network technology, layers of computer circuits that work in ways analogous to the human brain. If its intelligent space architecture proves a success, Ada may help pave the way for the acceptance and development...
...offer much help in preparation of defenses against attacks, but do spread panic - which, of course, is a large part of the terrorists' intention. From al-Qaeda's point of view, the warnings are the ultimate freebie. After all, terrorism is not warfare in the conventional sense, where the object is to project power in order to destroy an enemy's military capability. Terrorism is more in the nature of violence-as-propaganda, using spectacular attacks to terrorize an enemy's support base as well as to embolden and inspire the terrorists' own supporters. Al-Qaeda's modus operandi over...
...Gould’s success did not come without criticism that he let popular work overshadow his scholarly contributions. In an April 26 review of Structure of Evolutionary Theory in Science, SUNY-Stonybrook Professor Douglas J. Futuyma described Gould “as an object of professional controversy” and wrote, “It has been 25 years since his first and, until now, only book directed at his peers...