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...being rescued, are forced to work together and form alliances in order survive in their prison of paradise. From “Survivor: Micronesia” to “Gilligan’s Island” to that Tom Hanks movie with the eerily similar title, this recurring scenario may ring a few bells. Especially with the new season of “Lost” starting in just a few days, the basic premise of the Freshman Musical “Castaways,” which runs in the Adams Pool Theatre through April 26, plays like...
...repercussions in the few remaining Democratic primary races are not really the issue. What raises the stakes is the crucial role that white working-class voters play in just about every conceivable Democratic scenario for winning in the fall. It is no accident that McCain is also exploiting Obama's comments to go after swing voters and rev up his own embittered base. Small-town Americans "are the people that have fundamental cultural, spiritual and other values that in my view have very little to do with their economic condition," McCain said in a speech at the Associated Press annual...
...first of three talks to be given by Kahneman this week as part of the Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative’s 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series. Kahneman opened the evening by presenting a series of examples of persistent flaws in intuition. In his “Linda” scenario, for example, Kahneman revealed the tendency for people to misjudge probabilities. Respondents frequently estimate that the likelihood of a woman named Linda being both a bank teller and active in the feminist movement was greater than the probability of her just being a bankteller, simply because of the way Linda...
...this scenario is the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The agency responsible for policing the safety of the nation's airlines has been under intense pressure over the last few weeks, ever since an investigation by the House Transportation Committee revealed in March that an FAA supervisor allowed Southwest Airlines to fly 46 planes that had missed inspections. Congress has been holding hearings on aviation safety, during which Robert Sturgell, the FAA's acting administrator, who is up for the permanent position, has had to answer charges, from whistle-blowers and lawmakers, of excessive coziness with and lax oversight...
...executive officer for the Democratic Convention, believes the party will have a nominee in time to make the necessary decisions regarding the organization (and, more important, the television broadcast) of the convention. Yet she acknowledges, "We wouldn't be good convention planners if we didn't plan for every scenario, A through...