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Reputations come and go, but some are unshakable, and the day I tagged Eric Carter '93 with, the nickname "The Human Foul" was the day I chose the path of the journalistically righteous and publicly despised...
There are two responses one could have to the fact that human beings are nothing but the accidental product of a mindless algorithmic process. The first is the path of reluctance, feat, even dread; this has been the main response of Western arts and letters since Darwin, and its products have ranged from the sentimental agnosticism of Matthew Arnold to the brutal existentialism of Sartre. The second is the path of gleeful Philistinism, which glories in exposing the rubes like Plato, Aquinas and Kant whose faith in human divnity has been overthrown by the glittering progress of Science...
...opus on evolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett is inevitably taking the second path; while he professes genuine respect for Philosophy and Meaning, he has no patience for those who cling to them rather than face the truth about evolution. And while he is sanguine about the prospect of reconstituting philosophy on the basis of Darwinism, his attempts to do so in the present book are far from reassuring...
From academia to ambassadorial travel, Wilson has followed a meandering path--almost like that of the Congo River, which Wilson voyaged with money from a Rockefeller Grant just after graduation...
...tend to be more profitable, according to a Labor Department study released today. The two-year look at workplace strategies of American companies was conducted by the management consulting arm of Ernst & Young for the government. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who has advocated such strategies for years, said the path-breaking" study "shows the surest way to profits and productivity is to treat employees as assets to be developed rather than costs to be cut." An example from the study: Motorola Inc. estimates that it earns $30 for every $1 invested in employee training...