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...another classically themed poem, “The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles,” Penelope—for nearly three thousand years regarded as the archetype of a faithful spouse—indicates to Odysseus, her husband, that she may not in fact have been as faithful as he, and Homer, thought. The poem drives its point home with a jarring conclusion, with Penelope telling Odysseus to “Kill all the damned suitors, if you think it will make you feel better...
West never even officially contacted the Black Students Association (BSA) after the group spent countless hours collecting over a thousand signatures asking him to stay at Harvard. Such thoughtlessness is insulting on its own, but, moreover, the manner of his departure puts the BSA in an impossible position, having to reconcile their support for West and the need to avoid utterly alienating the Administration...
Then there’s medical malpractice claims. In states known to award high punitive damages like Florida, general practitioners must carry hundreds of thousands of dollars of malpractice insurance, and the rates are rising in some places at higher than 20 percent per year. Doctors, who still make only a few hundred thousand dollars per year, are being driven out of the business. Earlier this month, 600 doctors in Texas closed their offices for a day to protest this treatment, all the result of lawyers who know a well-insured doctor to be a sitting duck. Even...
...dangers he faced. But given what I have just explained, this unfortunately isn’t possible with my creation of time travel. Luckily, however, I think we will eventually encounter advanced civilizations on other planets through space travel. So perhaps they created a time machine a thousand years ago, and this would allow us to travel to points in our own distant past. In that case, I would love to visit ancient Rome as it was and see how people lived. See what Plato looked like. The future doesn’t excite me as much as the past...
...meters, Brown advanced nearly a boat length. Through the middle thousand meters Radcliffe moved back two seats, but with 500 meters to go the Bears pulled away...