Word: shifts
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Last week's NATO raids were more than just a slap at the Serbs. They also represented a fundamental and dramatic shift in the way the U.S. has mixed military policy with foreign affairs. For the better part of the past decade, ever since U.S. troops stumbled in Somalia, American thinking has conformed to the so-called Powell doctrine, named after former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. His doctrine had two tenets: first, the "biggest s.o.b. on the block" rule, that America should enter fights with every bit of force available or not at all. Second...
Meet three blind mice: an unhappily married thirtysomething couple--he's a nearly successful actor, she's an actress ignominiously turned brownie baker--and their gay best friend, a former dancer who's now an ineffectual social worker. Smart and smart-alecky, none of them know how to shift the course of their sorry lives. A young stranger shows up at the Los Angeles bungalow they're temporarily sharing. Secrets are revealed, life choices are examined, change is attempted. With passion and humor, Grant's sinewy off-Broadway drama digs deep into the souls of characters whose problems...
...died at 84--Piaget had developed several new fields of science: developmental psychology, cognitive theory and what came to be called genetic epistemology. Although not an educational reformer, he championed a way of thinking about children that provided the foundation for today's education-reform movements. It was a shift comparable to the displacement of stories of "noble savages" and "cannibals" by modern anthropology. One might say that Piaget was the first to take children's thinking seriously...
...such a simple shift of perspective, Godel wrought deep magic. The Godelian trick is to imagine studying what might be called "Martian-producible numbers" (those numbers that are in fact theorems in the Martian textbooks), and to ask questions such as, "Is or is not the number 8030974 Martian-producible (M.P., for short)?" This question means, Will the statement '8030974' ever turn up in a Martian textbook...
...focus of the Kevorkian case will now shift to the sentencing phase and place the spotlight on Judge Jessica Cooper. "She's been meticulously responsible in following the law and explicitly careful to explain everything to Kevorkian, since he chose to represent himself," says Grace. Now, however, it is Cooper who will make the final decision of this difficult case. How harsh should she be on the 70-year-old zealot? Says Grace: "The fact that she let Kevorkian go free pending the sentencing may be an indication that she thinks he's something less than a cold-blooded murderer...