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Bush knows he must decide where he stands right now, because he will have no time to think once the campaign is rolling. So he's holding what amounts to a months-long policy seminar and keeping his notes to himself. The result is a Washington guessing game: Whom is he talking to? Whom is he "listening to"? And whom for substance, whom for show? About those things, Bush is right to be discreet. Conservatives growl when they hear he's talking to anyone remotely moderate...
...returned to Austria to become a schoolteacher. But the worm of doubt soon gnawed, and he returned to England in 1929 to declare dramatically that he had got it all wrong the first time. The "later Wittgenstein" spent the next 18 years agonizing in front of a small Cambridge seminar of devoted and transfixed students, who posed curious questions that he then answered--or pointedly did not answer--with wonderfully austere if often enigmatic aphorisms. An obsessive perfectionist, Wittgenstein worked and reworked his notes and left his second masterpiece, Philosophical Investigations, for posthumous publication in 1953. Both books will...
...Wittgenstein's Cambridge seminar on the foundations of mathematics included a brilliant young mathematician, Alan Turing, who was giving his own course that term on the same topic. Turing too had been excited by the promise of mathematical logic and, like Wittgenstein, had come to see that it had limitations. But in the course of Turing's formal proof that the dream of turning all mathematics into logic was strictly impossible, he had invented a purely conceptual device--now known as a Universal Turing Machine--that provided the logical basis for the digital computer. And whereas Wittgenstein's dream...
...those who know me will readily testify, I hold a blind predilection towards all things European. I am enchanted by the melodic languages, the various delightful cuisines, the elegant fashion and, of course, the seductive men. Last week, as I sat in my Anthro seminar, lost as usual in daydreams of Paris and Milan, I was struck with a peculiar epiphany. Surprisingly enough, my biased idealization of European culture translates quite nicely into a self-serving comparison between Europe and the Quad. Though initially you may scoff at this unlikely analogy, it is a convenient means to convince myself...
...Except in very rare cases, I know the students quite well," wrote Stanfield Professor for International Peace Robert D. Putnam in an e-mail message. "In the overwhelming majority of cases I have taught them in a small seminar with weekly papers and lots of discussion, so I really have a chance to see them in many different contexts...