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...such a ratio prevails throughout the universe, the implications are vast. First, it would mean that there might be so much matter in the universe that the outward expansion ignited by the Big Bang would eventually be counteracted by the force of gravity. The universe would ultimately cease its expansion and begin to collapse under its own weight, imploding in a catastrophic finale that theorists have dubbed the Big Crunch. But the presence of so much dark matter also has implications for the question Alcock ponders: What is all this stuff made of? The more dark matter there...
...there's a harsher reality. Little Rock, having conquered the outward racism of 1957, when Gov. Orval Faubus tried to keep nine Black students from beginning the integration of Central High School (now 65 percent Black), is a city of inwardness and hidden feelings...
...ordered choice, therefore, seems to be a hypocrisy coined to the outward benefit of both students and administration. Its only apparent purpose is to cast an aura of heightened political correctness over the campus. Is that warm, fuzzy feeling of egalitarianism the only thing to be gained by any sort of randomization? Most students would not dispute that the diversity afforded to them by their fairly random first-year accommodations is a fantastic opportunity for exposure to varied social and religious points of view...
...committee has already sent applications toall Harvard schools and Faculty of Arts andSciences departments as well as to outdoororganizations like Outward Bound...
...lightly around the tough issues and only ask the polite questions, while stifling those which clamor in mute repression for voice. It urges us against our penchant to accept the soundbite without listening to the sound. It urges us to turn the pointing finger inward and the embracing arm outward. It urges us to be watchful, to be waitful, to listen and to learn, to give some time to "pause" in a world that covets "passing...