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...some tough sledding. Wittgenstein draws a distinction between what can be said, using words, and what can only be shown, and this raises the inevitable question: Does the Tractatus, as a text, say things that can't be said? Maybe. The next-to-last proposition is a famous shocker: "6.54. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then...
...Michigan State's presence in the Final Four wasn't much of a shocker either...
...shocker is not that China spies but that the U.S. took such a leisurely approach to countering China's successes. In early 1996 Berger was told about the case and encouraged the FBI to investigate, but he took no steps to increase security at Los Alamos. ("I get similar briefings once a month," shrugs a White House official.) Only in July 1997, after another briefing on laxity at the labs, did Berger tell Clinton. Berger assigned an interagency group to draft tougher security rules for the labs; Clinton signed them in February 1998. The span of six months from briefing...
...Wyant's true shocker had come in the quarterfinals, where he had dropped Cowie 3-1 (15-9, 15-7, 6-15, 15-7). Cowie had won the last two NISRA Individual titles...
...well as Scarface and the Godfather saga. In the movie You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks even refers to the Godfather trilogy as the perfect guide to life, the I-Ching for guys. Rappers seem to agree. Snoop Dogg's sophomore album was titled The Doggfather. Silkk the Shocker's new album is called Made Man. On his song Boomerang, Big Pun echoes James Cagney in White Heat, yelling, "Top of the world, Ma! Top of the world...