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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maintaining the sense of community is particularly important for Adams, Kiely says, because its various nooks and crannies make it "conducive to being left alone...
Weinstein also helped leave behind a new program at Thorne Middle School in which students were encouraged to do nice things for others. Every morning Weinstein would announce various good deeds over the p.a. system, and she solicited prizes from local merchants and restaurants. Given her fate, the name of the program has a heartbreaking resonance to it: Random Acts of Kindness...
...film education came from a high school girlfriend who got into movies free through a relative, there wasn't much to do in suburban Larchmont, New York. "I saw Shampoo, Chinatown and Taxi Driver about five times," he recalls. After studying literature and government at Amherst, he toiled at various jobs while making short films. The director admits he mines material from a vein pretty close to home, and Flirting is based in part on his adopted sister's search for her biological parents. But when asked why his films treat parents with such disrespect, to put it sweetly, Russell...
...play so far as possible within the time allotted. Because chess is a game of virtually limitless possibilities, even a beast like Deep Blue, which can look at more than 100 million positions a second, can go only so deep. When computers reach that point, they evaluate the various resulting positions and select the move leading to the best one. And because computers' primary way of evaluating chess positions is by measuring material superiority, they are notoriously materialistic. If they "understood" the game, they might act differently, but they don't understand...
Anyone looking for evidence that might indict Bill or Hillary Clinton will be disappointed. But Stewart does succeed in painting a portrait of how the President's men and their critics have repeatedly shaded, covered up and manipulated the truth to further their various political ends. It adds up to a vivid profile of America's political culture. Though the saga is not pretty, it has at least one redeeming quality. Slowly but surely, Stewart points out, the truth has emerged. "I hope eventually people will come to realize the futility of dissembling," he says...