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Somehow, Veritas now means much more to me than a design associated with my morning cup of orange juice, my muffin-containing napkin and an imposing iron gate. An elite university should serve as more than a mere playground for the mind--it should forward the pursuit of truth. Without the shared assumptions that constitute the truth at any given point in human history, assumptions about the nature of common human experience, we are each reduced to an isolated clump of matter, Lacking any basis for communicatio with others. Muhammad's call for a new look at learning...
...analysts and George Bush were wrong. The Gulf War was a confidence-booster for the country's military establishment. It served as a playground on which the United States showed off its high-tech weapons. But the Gulf War did not test the mettle or iron-will of this country's leadership, nor did it help us to kick the "Vietnam syndrome...
Waters described the opening on Saturday of a sporting goods store and playground in her district. The business was opened in an effort to connect young people in the projects with job training through state government funds, she said...
...CYBERSPACE IS MORE THAN A PLAYGROUND for hacker high jinks. What cyberpunks have known for some time -- and what 17.5 million modem-equipped computer users around the world have discovered -- is that cyberspace is also a new medium. Every night on Prodigy, CompuServe, GEnie and thousands of smaller computer bulletin boards, people by the hundreds of thousands are logging on to a great computer-mediated gabfest, an interactive debate that allows them to leap over barriers of time, place, sex and social status. Computer networks make it easy to reach out and touch strangers who share a particular obsession...
...listen to something behind the clamor of the world. "A man who loves God, necessarily loves silence," wrote Thomas Merton, who was, as a Trappist, a connoisseur, a caretaker of silences. It is no coincidence that places of worship are places of silence: if idleness is the devil's playground, silence may be the angels'. It is no surprise that silence is an anagram of license. And it is only right that Quakers all but worship silence, for it is the place where everyone finds his God, however he may express it. Silence is an ecumenical state, beyond the doctrines...