Word: simon
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Other executives seem to believe that distribution problems, in the Quad and throughout campus, are rare occurrences. Crimson President Joshua H. Simon '00 believes that "there are anomalous situations where a whole House does not get the paper door-dropped." Further, despite the fact that Quad distribution has been particularly bad this year, Simon is unaware "if [circulation problems] affect certain areas more than others...
...introductory meeting for every interesting club on campus, I'm taking a low-key tack. And I've been making time to take walksolong walks along the river, in the fresh autumn breeze, with nothing but my thoughts and the scenery. Sometimes, I can even hear nature singing Simon and Garfunkel: "Slow down, you're moving too fast you've got to make the morning last...
...jumping off a bridge, or from shooting someone myself, while I healed." He debriefed everyone, from the psychiatrists to whom Lo described the inner voice that told him "it is time" to start shooting, to the gun dealer who sold Lo the Chinese-made semiautomatic SKS rifle, to the Simon's Rock College officials who failed to detain Lo even after they were warned that he had a gun. The result is a tapestry of shared pain and guilt in which everyone, including the killer, is in some sense a victim...
...have happened if Wayne Lo, at the age of 18, had not been able to walk into a gun store, flash his driver's license and $129 and walk out with a deadly weapon. Or if he had not been able to have 200 bullets sent to him at Simon's Rock College by a mail-order arms company. To my friend Greg, there is a straightforward conclusion to be drawn from the mystery of Galen's death. "We've just got too many guns in this country. We've got to get rid of them." Anyone who reads Gone...
Many years ago, Simon Blackburn tried to teach me philosophy, an endeavor I suspect he found rather frustrating. If he had written this book back then, we both might have had more fun with Cartesian dualism and the like. Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us. Alas, he is better at explaining doubts and skepticisms and moral relativism than at charting a path out of such dilemmas...