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...think that coin tossing isn't random, it's physics," he says. "You can show that a very slight change in how you flip it makes for the difference between heads and tails...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Teaching The Tricks Of the Trade | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...WICKED WORLD IN WHICH THE POWER OF ANY INDIvidual to cause suffering is so great and the power to do good is so slight; but here we are, the week of our beloved national feast, our annual homecoming, and signs of loving Providence are everywhere around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

Shortly before his death in 1980, Lennon recorded the unfinished tune--a slight hymn to deliverance, with the structure of his 1964 This Boy and the feel of his 1970 post-Beatles Love--on a low-fi home cassette, which Yoko Ono Lennon turned over to her husband's old chums. "It had hums, hisses and clicks that had to be removed," says pop maestro Jeff Lynne, formerly of Electric Light Orchestra, who produced this year's eerie session. "But that was the easy part. The hard part was getting the Beatles to play together along with him." Once they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GET BACK | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...direct ticket to prosperity, and when Christine comes unannounced to join him in Burundi. Director Leonce Ngabo creates a sympathetic character in Gito who is decked out in brightly-colored suits and frequents vibrant locations. Ngabo's treatment of Gito's family and love relationships tenderly reveals Gito's slight exasperation overcome with genuine adoration. It is a portrait of true familial and romantic love...

Author: By Sarah G. Vincent, | Title: Highlighting Africa at HFA | 11/16/1995 | See Source »

Although current senior tutors say academic work is important, junior faculty members argue that any benefit undergraduates would gain from having assistant and associate professors as senior tutors would likely be slight and would entirely depend on the person...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Junior Faculty Ponder Being Senior Tutors | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

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