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Before you turn the page, I would like to present this issue's "Cheer of the Week" award to a cheer which I heard Saturday at the Coulumbia game. It goes to the creator of a remarkably melodic ditty, rich in imagery, and destined to enter the realm of Harvardiana--"Harass them, harass them, make them relinquish the spheroid...
Then the film went into rapid reverse as the game entered the realm of the absurd with three-and-a-half minutes remaining...
...importance of this aid goes beyond the financial realm--belief in U.S. support has always provided a tremendous psychological boost to the regime. It has also cemented the association in the minds of the population between their oppressor and the American government...
...what shall we say about the dark realm of criminality as such? Legal frames (especially in the United States) are broad enough to encourage not only individual freedom but also certain individual crimes. The culprit can go unpunished or obtain undeserved lenience with the support of thousands of public defenders. When a government starts an earnest fight against terrorism, public opinion immediately accuses it of violating the terrorists' civil rights...
...whole stars can vanish from sight within black holes, literally crushed out of existence, where has their matter gone? To another place and another time? Where did it come from? In searching for answers to the fundamental questions raised by black holes, scientists are infringing on the realm of philosophers and theologians. They are trying to find the meaning of life, of being, of the universe itself...