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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...
...than 20 were injured in violent clashes between opponents and supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Opposition leaders, who accuse Aristide of corruption, called a two-day general strike, which shut down many businesses in Port-au-Prince. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ye Cannae Dae That To many, the Scottish lilt is charming and even rather attractive (think Sean Connery). But not, it seems, to the British Foreign Office, which was forced to apologize for denying a Russian student a visa to study English in Scotland on the grounds that she would have difficulty understanding the accent. What could they...
After training with the team in Los Angeles for the first half of winter break, Suchde jetted over to Europe and became the first-ever Harvard player to win the Junior Scottish Open. Sophomore Will Broadbent, Suchde’s teammate, came close—he lost in the finals when he was 18 years old. The tournament—which is open to the top players in the world under the age of 19—is widely thought of as one of the premier tournaments in squash...
...Winning the Scottish Open is [winning] a world-class event,” coach Satinder Bajwa said. “Many of the players playing are in the top 10 in the world, so Siddharth played really well and his Scottish Open victory was a wonderful world-class...
...Nutcracker tours Japan and Korea in the spring, and maybe the U.S. later in the year. There are plans for his searing Swan Lake to visit Paris and tour the U.K. and U.S. in late 2004. Bourne also plans to revive Highland Fling (à La Sylphide retread, with a Scottish welder seduced by a vampire) and, in 2005, choreograph a dance version of the Tim Burton movie Edward Scissorhands. Oh, and did we mention that he's slated to co-direct (with Richard Eyre) and choreograph the much-hyped Disney?Cameron Mackintosh stage show of Mary Poppins, set to debut...