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...life and work of Harvard's own E.O. Wilson, expert in insect communication and sometime "father of sociobiology," leads Wright to investigate biology. Finally, attention shifts to the role of information in the social sciences and the work of economist and systems-theorist Kenneth Boulding...
...legendary 19th century Military Theorist Karl von Clausewitz called it simply the "fog of war," that unfathomable combination of human personality, weapons performance and just plain luck that makes battle so unpredictable. This "fog," the Pentagon declared last week, was largely to blame for the tragic decision by the U.S.S. Vincennes on July 3 to shoot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 civilians...
Thus Thomas Schelling, a game theorist, opposed Dukakis' appointment. To this day he says, "He could not have made his career in the academy; the scholarly writing was not there." And he notes with satisfaction that the people Dukakis took from the school when he want back into government were his fellow "practitioners" on temporary duty by the Charles, including (Schelling adds, with a grimace) "our building manager." But others think Dukakis gave to the Kennedy School more than he took from it. Mary Jo Bane, who is responsible for the school's poverty studies, is partly mocking but serious...
...head of a pin. "Some of the arcane scenarios that we nuclear strategists see, he doesn't believe are reasonable," says his top foreign policy staffer, James Steinberg. "When looking at the calculations a Soviet leader would make, he thinks like a politician rather than a nuclear theorist...
Professor of philosophy Alexander Nehamas, in a review of a new publication by the German theorist Jurgen Habermas, makes the supposedly devastating critique that Habermas wants to be a great philosopher...