Word: rand
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...like “Star Trek,” from the military bent to the evil aliens. You would be correct, were it not for an essential difference: character development. “Star Trek,” as my astute boyfriend once put it, is like an Ayn Rand novel; characters don’t do anything of their own accord, but are just placeholders for ideas, and everything resolves neatly in the end. “Battlestar” is very different. Its characters are so complicated and troubled that they border on self-destructive. This isn?...
...Virginia Tech shootings, Virginia could have (and should have) reported Seung-Hui Cho's psychological history to the feds, which would have made it harder for him to buy the two guns he used, but it didn't happen. "Virginia just misunderstood what the federal standard was," says Kristen Rand, legislative director at the Violence Policy Center, adding that both state and federal officials were responsible for the bureaucratic confusion over which information to report...
...question we asked is, ‘If the other person chose to be selfish, how would you respond?’,” said David G. Rand, a doctoral candidate who collaborated on the study as a part of his dissertation research...
...Often when people punish, the other person responds by punishing back, and you get this downward spiral of escalation,” Rand said...
Although real life adds many levels of complexity, Rand said that he believed the study was generalizable, assuming that the players begin on an equal standing...