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...exist today, not in the least undermined by our advance in scientific understanding. The religious explanation has been supplemented--but not supplanted--by advances in scientific knowledge. We now may, if we care to, think of Rayleigh scattering as the method God has chosen to implement his color scheme...
...media streams, it also taps into the alienation created by such fracturing. The secret appeal of these multiple storylines lies in their ultimate interconnectedness. They provide a sort of existential "happy ending" where everything that seems to be unrelated and isolated proves to be part of some grand scheme. Tricked follows this fantasy to the letter. Eventually all the characters end up in the same place at the same time in a violent climax. But, although these narratives drive their characters to a single point in space and time, they never seem to converge thematically. Where the rain of frogs...
...HoCos. But while the new rules are certainly a step in the right direction, they cannot hope to go far enough to make HoCos genuinely effective instruments of House community. To do that, the UC would have to take a drastic step: stop funding HoCos altogether.Under the present funding scheme, the UC allocates $3,500 to every HoCo each semester. Given the role that Houses could—and were designed to—play in campus life at Harvard, this is barely a pittance. Since the UC has other things on which it needs to regularly spend its budget...
...treatment by Arkansas state regulators, including one, Beverly Basset Schaffer, who was appointed by Clinton. That line of pursuit could also produce questions for Hillary, who as an attorney represented Madison in its bid to launch an adventurous stock scheme at a time when Clinton was Governor. More trouble may come from Capitol Hill. For months Representative Henry Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who is chairman of the House Banking Committee, has been resisting calls to step up a laggard investigation of Madison by his committee. But last week's disclosures provide ammunition for Jim Leach of Iowa, the committee...
...homeless crisis. Anyone who’s seen the colorful cast of characters in the Square knows that most won’t seek out assistance on their own. We must provide it for them. The logistics of doing this might at first appear maddeningly difficult. But a simple scheme could be established to identify the chronic homeless. Then, under a judge’s supervision, mental health professionals would determine which individuals were incapable of making their own treatment decisions. Those who met this standard would have to undergo rehab.Thousands of our most desperate and helpless citizens would finally...