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...Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: By Donald Carswell, THIS PIECE FIRST RAN ON JUNE 14, 1950. | Title: Beating the System | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Superficiality aside, though, Cleopatra is the play's central character. While other characters and especially Antony himself seem to speak in a vacuum, characters react to her words and bend themselves to her minutest whims. Only Caesar seems to know that flattery is the sole path to Cleopatra's mind and motivations...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Victorian 'Antony and Cleopatra' Solves Original Play's Problems | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...many students, involvement in the Cambridge community through the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) or the IOP is already part of their extracurricular lives. But for others, Harvard might as well be in a vacuum, sealed off from its city by ivy walls. The College is in a position to change that image and reality by teaching us about Cambridge's history and today's local communities during the first days of our time here. With this information, we would better understand our new home and new neighbors. The history lesson would be well complemented by tours of the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bridging the Town-Gown Gap | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...Padgett believes that democratization, which has seen the ruling party lose its majority in the legislature, has created a power vacuum which is being exploited by criminals and petty officials in a rising tide of violence. "Public insecurity is at an all-time high. The massacre may serve to make Mexicans realize they have to do something to stop the 'Columbianization' of their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Massacre, Chiapas Villagers Return Home | 1/2/1998 | See Source »

...again." Greenspan is on guard, a renowned numbers cruncher who keeps tabs on the most obscure corners of the economy. Robin Leigh-Pemberton, former governor of the Bank of England, once remarked that at conferences Greenspan was likely to back up his predictions by citing such obscure data as vacuum-cleaner sales in Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OTHERS WHO SHAPED 1997: ALAN GREENSPAN | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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