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Harvard administrators have yet to decide what percentage of the $19.2 billion endowment they will spend this year--it's typically 5 percent--but, regardless, Harvard is much richer than ever before...
...collective passion, to celebrate, protest or play. Regardless of their background, Sydneysiders are united in love of their harbor: its waters dissolve their separate identities and reflect a common image; it is both solvent and balm, mixing disparate peoples and smoothing over their differences. Its own life grows richer: as industry becomes more environmentally enlightened, the harbor's waters have improved. Above the sharks that cruise its depths, dolphins surf the bow waves of the ferries, and a couple of times a year a migrating whale takes a wrong turn and passes a day or two marveling at the harborside...
Which life form, the biological or the artificial, will have the more winning personality? Can it be true that humans, being cranky and irrational, have, for all these years, stupidly congratulated themselves on the idea that, whatever their technical imperfections, they have richer personalities (turbulent with love, laughter, passion, envy, etc.) than the merely rational/mechanical robot? Maybe, next to the sleek artificials, we messy biologicals (requiring deodorants and bathrooms and toilet paper and all the rest) will grow self-conscious and ashamed...
...fine needle: he picked a centrist running mate and shaped a centrist platform, all the while calling for the workers in the hall to unite. He's offering Clintonism in populist garb, centrism in a union suit. He never talks about issues like income inequality or the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. He talks about a prescription-drug benefit, the patient's bill of rights, targeted tax cuts, a secure retirement--ideas that speak to voters who are prospering as well as voters who are not. And his brew also includes centrist ingredients like welfare reform, disciplined government...
...brother and his sister-in-law, who were in attendance) for taking the heat that went along with being associated with him these past four years. He said that even the bad days were great days, and somehow that was reassuring. For this was a Democratic contingent made richer during the booming prosperity of the Clinton era. They had enjoyed the eight-year intersection of Hollywood and politics. They seemed glad that it was good...