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...have had intermittent success applying the technique to my most chronic addiction: chess. George Steiner is right that chess is ultimately an entirely useless, self-referential experience, but telling yourself so is of no use because it is also totally absorbing. During, say, a 10-hour binge of speed chess, you tell yourself other things. You tell yourself it is a noble game. You tell yourself it was Ben Franklin's favorite pastime while ambassador to France ("I call this my opera," he would say, explaining his absence from the Paris opera). You tell yourself that Natan Sharansky kept...
Cultural Relativism and Female Circumcision/Genital Mutilation. Henry Steiner, director, Human Rights Program, HLS. Room G-2, Kresge Building, HSPH...
...anybody, anywhere watch C-SPAN on New Year's Eve? (Maybe Joshua Steiner didn't have a date ...) Here's what hundreds of millions of us missed...
...Meanwhile, Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee have sent a letter to Starr requesting a probe of testimony by Clinton advisersGeorge Stephanopoulosand Harold Ickes, saying their statements appear "to raise significant questions of veracity." One reason, Ratan says, is that the GOP members believe former Treasury Department aide Joshua Steiner's diary entries which contradict the two on Whitewater details. Steiner denied that the entries were accurate. Finally, The Washington Post reports, former Clinton Justice Department official (and law partner of Hillary Clinton) Webster Hubbell is in trouble with Starr -- the prosecutor has developed extensive evidence that he billed hundreds...
...Beta Kappa accepts 24 juniors in the spring on the basis of grade point average and "depth and breadth of study as indicated by curriculum and by letters of recommendation," Steiner said...