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...What I liked about [Harvard] was the sense of openness and the sense of possibilities," said DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. "It means a chance to be with the best and brightest from...across the world, to be with people from places I had never even dreamed of visiting...
...part, ambersunshower sings songs that are as unconventional as her name. On Walter T. Smith (named after her late grandfather) her songs bounce, throb and skip along, playful and carefree; what gives them substance is her unusual blend of ethereal vocals, folky acoustic guitar and forceful hip-hop percussion. The most engaging number is the title track, a flitty number about death that's charmingly blithe in the face of sorrow...
...teacher at Evergreen Park High School who remembers Ted fondly as one of his brightest students. "He drove his teachers up the wall. So in high school we had to figure something out." What his parents and school officials arrived at was the accelerated curriculum that allowed him to skip his junior year of high school and shot him to Harvard at age 16. But while his brother David also skipped junior year, Ted may have been more deeply affected by a fast track that landed him among older kids...
...extraness problem is what Chalmers calls one of the "hard" questions of consciousness. What Dennett does, Chalmers says, is skip the "hard" questions and focus on the "easy" questions--and then title his book Consciousness Explained. There is one other "hard" question that Chalmers emphasizes. It--and Dennett's alleged tendency to avoid such questions--is illustrated by something called pandemonium, an AI model that Dennett favors...
...They're going after an amount of money before deciding how its going to be spent," said Ralph E. (Skip) Schloming, a member of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA...