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Shakespeare, in his prescient wisdom, foresaw the discovery of the late twentieth century Harvard paradigm. What is Macbeth if not the tragic embodiment of acute paradigm dysfunction? He fell victim to a bunch of lunatics who shoved their own illusory paradigms up his paradigm vacuum. He had to be told what paradigms to adopt. His fatal paradigm encompassed the plausibility of entire forests moving by themselves. Since Macbeth was the classic tragic hero, he could be cleansed of his false paradigms only in death. We muse that, at the final moment of truth, he ascends to paradigm purification...

Author: By Joseph V. Impara jr., | Title: My New Word | 2/17/1995 | See Source »

...feel as he does--to win a ruling or legislation under which a doctor would not be prosecuted for ending his life by injecting him with ``an appropriate chemical substance.'' So far, two Spanish courts and the Constitutional Tribunal have found either technical reasons or a ``legal vacuum'' to avoid a decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SUENO SE HA VUELTO PESADILLA | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...impression they would be ready for it when it came. But when the ground shook under Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, that faith suffered its own Richter shock, and Japanese confidence in their ability to outsmart nature lay in ruins. A vast feeling of insecurity rushed into the vacuum, accompanied by anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: WHEN KOBE DIED | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

Additionally, student staffing of house security offices will allow guards time to patrol house grounds and thus increase their visibility. Since security offices double as superintendent's offices in many houses, students will also be able to get vacuum cleaners and other supplies more easily. The need to hunt down a security guard out on night patrol will hopefully disappear...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Finally, HUPD Looks to Reform | 1/25/1995 | See Source »

...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 intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/18/1995 | See Source »

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