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...theory of relativity) into philosphical questions that have puzzled humanity since the time of Socrates. While this is not an entirely original idea, Nozick draws together many of the ways in which science can affect concepts such as truth, objectivity, necessity, consciousness and ethics in a complete and thorough manner...
...marquis of college dorm rooms—front doors, common room walls, magnetized refrigerator sides. Their headings read “To Do Before Graduation” or “Top Ten Must Sees” and are followed by a list of activities so thorough, so positively guide-booky, that they would make any Fodor’s writer proud: picnic on Boston Common, visit Walden Pond, walk the Freedom Trail, take a Duck Tour, inhale culture...
...mean to imply that the activities now carefully enumerated on so many hallowed sheets of paper are insignificant, that the sites carefully marked on maps are not worth seeing. Indeed, my fellow students have done a remarkably thorough job of teasing out the centers and squares, the parks and plazas, the quirks and quaint spots that differentiate Boston from all other cities. Instead I offer the humble suggestion that perhaps we ought not be preoccupied with checking off every listing in the Unofficial Guide. Perhaps we are not responsible for seeing what makes Boston unique, but instead are responsible...
...long running dinner-theater spectacle which reopened last month at downtown Boston’s Tremont Playhouse. And although its sister production, The Soprano’s Last Supper, mines much the same material for laughs, each show manages to stand on its own and win laughs as a thorough and tremendously funny send-up of, and tribute to, the absurd pop culture depiction of Italian-Americans...
...said the department was aware of a nonspecific threat received yesterday, but that a thorough investigation had uncovered nothing...