Word: three-year-old
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...Irish Mafia, named by Sander Vanocur, then NBC White House Correspondent, still controlled the heartbeat of J.F.K.'s three-year-old Administration. In Scammon's mellow hindsight, there is no doubt that the tough, pragmatic, but often tender and poetic, strains of the Kennedy stewardship reflected the political culture of the Boston Irish and the legacy of J.F.K.'s grandfather, Honey Fitz...
...next time I dissuade my three-year-old from some artistic endeavor because it's messy, I'm going to think of Leah Spielberg making cherries jubilee in a pressure cooker for Steven so he could film the explosion...
...only in limited terms. But he understates the point of my book What Computers Can't Do and so sets the limits too high. I argued that computers will never be able to understand even simple children's stories of the sort easily comprehended by any three-year-old. In light of such limitations, people who worry about the advent of even mildly intelligent machines are like alchemists who have not turned a single pebble into gold but are already concerned about the risk of transmuting the whole planet...
Another example of this more direct kind of student decision-making role is at Columbia, where the three-year-old Student Assembly sends three of its representatives to the University Senate comprised of faculty and administrators as well and charged with deciding policy. Students at these schools explain that the most constructive student input in fact occurs at the lower, committee level, but they nevertheless indicate a wider channel of direct communication when it is needed. The difference at these schools from Harvard, according to Ivy League student government officers, is primarily an absence of a particularly powerful faculty structure...
...sentiment, or lack of it, is common in the business. As one eminent three-year-old after another fell apart this spring - Deputy Minister, Stalwart, Lets Dont Fight, et al. - the horsemen's reaction was generally to shrug and say, "This is racing." But the fans tend more to be of the Black Beauty school of horse lovers, and the anthropomorphizing before the 108th Derby was fierce...