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...begin.) In the first new episode, Tony, still feeling the effects of having been gut-shot by dementia-addled Uncle Junior, is celebrating his 47th birthday. Later there's a reference to one of his Mob peers, who died at 47. No one connects the dots explicitly, but the parallel is not lost on Tony. "My estimate, historically, 80% of the time, [a Mob boss] ends up in the can," he tells his brother-in-law Bobby (Steven R. Schirripa). "Or in the embalming room"--that is, whacked...
...aims for the trip, the second in as many months, are modest: "Right now," Rice said, "my primary goal is to establish a mechanism, a common approach, that I can use with them in parallel so that we are addressing the same issues. That's really the key right now." That is Rice's diplo-speak for her hopes of guiding Israeli and Palestinian leaders along parallel tracks to see a common "political horizon," to use one of her favorite phrases. The problem is that direct talks cannot happen so long as Israel refuses to deal with the Hamas faction...
Hofstadter sees in Gödel's work a structural parallel to the mystery that is the human mind. The brain, which is merely a squishy agglomeration of madly firing neurons, shouldn't by rights be able to think--it shouldn't be able to wake up, twist around, become aware of itself, and in doing so become an "I," but it does. Just like Gödel's mathematics, the mind is a strange, self-referential loop--it's a mirage, Hofstadter writes, but "a very peculiar kind of mirage ... a mirage that perceived itself, and of course it didn...
...theology. His goal is not to defend religion or to place it in a hierarchy above science, but rather to show that theology and physics have distinct similarities in the methods they use and their ultimate aims.For Polkinghorne, the two are not conflicting ideologies; they are engaged in a parallel pursuit of the same goal: truth.Polkinghorne wisely limits the scope of his book, making it both more concrete and more readable. He does not attempt to address all of the main Western religions, as Sam Harris does, and thereby avoids inaccuracies or sweeping generalizations.Polkinghorne also makes a smart move...
...take heart! Switzerland’s quick withdrawal and apology completely smoothed over what could have been a most unpleasant situation. Immediate U.S. pursuit of a parallel course of action regarding Iraq, it leads to follow, would do the same...