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There is much in this book that is profound, but little that trumpets itself as such. There is little precarious and showy piling of image on image, few abstruse allusions and fancy metaphysical dance-steps. Rather, there is every-where the easy, sure-footed gait of a writer at home in his native tongue and native place...
OPENNESS has to start at the top. The University should hold open Corporation meetings, liberalize the election process for the Board of Overseers--allowing students to vote--and make key investment decisions public on a quarterly basis. Such procedural changes will have profound effects on the University's ability to act responsibly in Cambridge and in the country. They will help...
What is hate? A "black sun," as Wiesel wrote? The image may give hate too much of a strange literary prestige. Black sun. White whale. Whatever. The reason the subject is hard to discuss is that hate is simultaneously a mystery and a moron. It seems either too profound to understand or too shallow and stupid to bear much analysis -- a cretin with a club, violent, repulsive, irrational, a black intoxication, an accomplice of death...
...Orientation Week conversation games will soon be over, for better or worse. Enjoy the bobbing and weaving of skin-deep conversations while you still can. Profound responses to age-old questions will be expected from you soon enough...
...solar neutrinos has stirred growing excitement in the physics world. There are three possibilities: the Baksan experiment is wildly wrong, scientists don't understand the sun as well as they thought they did, or scientists have underestimated the elusiveness of the neutrino. The answer to the mystery could have profound implications for physicists' understanding of the universe. Two eminent theorists, John Bahcall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and Cornell University's Hans Bethe have co-authored a paper that elaborates on an intriguing solution to the puzzle: neutrinos escape detection by changing from one form into...