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Granted these questions may possess no answers. My inability to resolve them may be a perennial symptom of youth or maybe even the human condition and no reflection on the merits of my education. However, my refined ability to argue a thesis in five to seven pages, double-spaced, does me no good at all in even attempting to broach them. If anything my swollen rational capacities make it more difficult for me to find anything to believe in, any source of beautiful illogical inspiration...
Maybe it was fallout from the gray matter that conceived E=mc2 or the fact that it was the week after a full moon, but something prompted an outburst of weirdness in response to the June 28 Science story on Einstein's brain. The first symptom was the declaration from Missouri's self-proclaimed "Prophet King" Kenna Farris: "I would allow science to study my brain, as Einstein's is being studied, but I am taking it with me after I rise from the dead." Next came word from a Michigan woman who claimed, "Like Einstein, I am an avatar...
Last Friday, hundreds of Harvard undergraduates flocked to the Gordon Track and Tennis Center to participate in the Harvard Career Forum. This annual event, featuring previous undergraduates recruiting present college students, is a symptom of the inescapable crisis that marks every undergraduate's college experience--the eventual job search. "What do I want to do with my life?" The question, asked absently when one is 8 or 14, becomes frighteningly real as graduation date approaches...
...long way from the old mentality to the new--the trip being, in part, a symptom of American cultural change. The transition, as of 1999, is incomplete. Old Thinking still has plenty of adherents. New Thinking may not prove to be entirely a story of virtue triumphant over death-peddling greed; it may instead merely introduce new forms of consumer taxation (higher cigarette prices) and lawyer enrichment, while people go on smoking and dying as before...
...oppressed group within Yugoslavia. In addition, the trial doesn?t appear to have reduced support for his cause in Turkey?s heavily Kurdish southeast. So whether or not Turkey actually executes Ocalan, it?s likely to continue to be plagued by the cause of which he is a symptom...