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...empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

...Vikings founded the Scottish stronghold of Skibo in the 9th century, but it is hard to know what they would make of it today. After fighting off the likes of Madonna (who got married in 2000 in the castle that was built on the original Viking site) and Robbie Williams (who celebrated his birthday there in March of this year), the intrepid Norsemen would probably not recognize their 1,000-year-old home. Where once there were serfs, there are now staff, and a golf course stands on former grazing land. Such is the world of 21st century castles. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleeping with the Barony | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

...RELOADED A Scottish firm launched this so-called docugame on the anniversary of the assassination last week. The game's website jfk-reloaded.com is offering up to $100,000 to the player who most closely re-creates the shots Lee Harvey Oswald fired from the Texas School Book Depository. (Points are subtracted for hitting Jackie.) Although the novelty was excoriated by Ted Kennedy's spokesman, the site has received more than 500,000 hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Bytes | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...face in late-night TV speaks with a Scottish brogue. CRAIG FERGUSON, best known to American audiences as The Drew Carey Show's insufferable boss Mr. Wick, takes the reins of CBS's Late Late Show in January, which another Craig--Kilborn in this case--dropped over the summer. (Easier to remember the name of the guy behind the desk, that way.) Ferguson won a bake-off with three other funny guys, much to his surprise. "I thought, There's no way they're going to let a Scottish guy do this show," he says. (Has he never seen Shrek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Awake | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...vikings founded the Scottish stronghold of Skibo in the 9th century, but it is hard to know what they would make of it today. After fighting off the likes of Madonna (who got married in the castle that was built on the original Viking site) and Robbie Williams (who celebrated his birthday there), it is highly unlikely that they would recognize their thousand-year-old home. Where once there were serfs, there are now staff, and a golf course stands on former grazing land. Such is the world of 21st century castle stays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleeping with the Barony | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

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