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...necessarily," he has said. Star Trek - just Star Trek, straight, no chaser - is Abrams' attempt to reverse-engineer the early years of Kirk and Spock and the rest of the original-series crew. It's like a Stanislavskian exercise, retroactively endowing the characters with a set of childhood memories (rather like the replicants in Blade Runner) that explain how they became who they are. (Captain, it appears we are caught in a time loop...
...idea what it was doing. The last time the agency had been charged with conducting hostile interrogations was during the Vietnam era, and most of those officers were long retired. The wisdom inside the CIA has always been that the best intelligence is obtained through persuasion rather than coercion. New CIA recruits have even been counseled against using blackmail because the information it produced couldn't be relied...
...system” would still be pursued despite “challenging economic times.” But, surely, these planned renovations and improvements will now have to wait. In the meantime, the university should ensure that the organizational heart of College residential life still lies within the Houses, rather than in a larger, more centralized administrative bureaucracy. To do so will require prioritizing administrative staff salaries over other current luxuries offered by houses...
...Philosophy professor Sean D. Kelly, who was on the great books committee, also stressed the great books’ compatibility with Gen Ed’s emphasis on subject matter rather than methods of knowing...
...naked” demonstrators and models choose to participate in these actions because they want to do something to make people stop and pay attention. We believe that people (including men, as shown in the link that Ms. Fiske provided to our “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign) should have the choice to use their own bodies to make social statements and that there is nothing shameful or “wrong” about being naked. This tactic has been used since Lady Godiva rode naked on a horse...