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...would urge the members of the Harvard community to examine the object of derision for themselves, and make up their monds on their own. Personally. I can attest to the magazine's general integrity and, in fact, to its tolerance, in spite of my long-standing lack of respect for it and its liberal counterparts. Thomas Lembong...
...object is to find and capture Carmen or one of her gang and restore the stolen treasures. In the version that is airing on PBS, player-detectives decipher a series of verbal clues, then use their knowledge of geography to score points. The top scorer gets to chase Carmen around a large, unmarked map. In the computer version -- which is played with the help of books like a the World Almanac or an atlas -- competitors may be shown an image of Socrates and have to know when he lived in order to move to the next clue. Carmen's trail...
Exactly how it works remains mystifying. Doctors guide patients into a hypnotic state by having them focus on a particular mental image, a soothing voice or an object (yup, a swinging watch on a chain will do the trick). Once the patient is there, habitual patterns of thought are temporarily suspended. One theory is that the limbic system -- the brain region linked to emotion and involuntary responses like blood pressure -- is stimulated under hypnosis and rendered capable of reacting to external suggestions. An estimated 1 in 10 people, however, is not suggestible...
...will object to having been misled if the policy worked. But did it? All you can say for sure is that if things had turned out differently -- if communism were still standing tall, the Soviet army and its proxies were still marauding around the world, and the CIA were still churning out rosy estimates of Soviet growth -- that also would be held to vindicate the Reagan policy...
Hubbard, a gregarious Indiana entrepreneur who ran Pierre du Pont's 1988 presidential bid, points out that those who object to the council's rulings are free to mount challenges in the courts. Hubbard says the council's goal is to improve the nation's competitiveness, not to shelter industry from regulation. "The higher the cost of the regulation, the higher the cost of the product to the consumer," he explains. "Our whole effort is to protect the consumer and the American worker...