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...real issue is not that words can hurt, or that civil rights and tolerance are essential in a democracy, but that hypersensitivity clouds rational discourse: how to knit a contentious American society together rather than allow it to become balkanized by competing interests. "We need to reset the thermostats," writes sociologist Etzioni, "not shatter windows or tear down walls. Extremism in defense of virtue is a vice...
...Miller's controversial reputation would suggest, they will probably be classics with a twist. He has reset an Italian opera in gangster territory, for example, and reimagined O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night as caustic tragicomedy rather than lugubrious apocalypse. Andromache is the first offering of a seven-play season, of which Miller will direct five. With characteristic confidence in his polymathic perversity, he has assigned himself an absurdist British comedy, N.F. Simpson's One Way Pendulum; a Jacobean tragedy, Bussy D'Ambois; a Leonard Bernstein musical, Candide, which Miller says "will have more flavor...
Other students are less tense, but just as determined. "If I do badly, at least on a computer game, I can hit the reset button if I'm doing badly," says Kyle O. Prioleau '89 of Eliot House. However he refuses to face the psychological implications of his actions: "I think I have a power complex--yeah, right...
When the computer is first turned on, or when it is reset, it will always look for a file called autoexec.bat. This is an ASCII file (constructed like any other batch file) which tells a computer what to do before leaving the user at the A prompt. For users without a hard disk, the autoexec.bat file can be used to start up specific applications. For example, the Happy Hacker has a wordprocessing disk that will always load a spelling checker program and then start the word processor anytime the computer is reset with the disk in drive...
...Some day we may be able to install bright lights in factories so workers on rotating shifts could get therapeutic doses of bright light on their evening shifts to reset their internal clocks in preparation for the next week's rotation to the night shift," Czeisler said...