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...Dems’ communications director and a Crimson editorial editor. “It’s interesting to see how many people are surprised to see that the war has been going on for four years. We want to make sure people don’t wake up in the morning without remembering what’s going on in Iraq.” The name reading was a relatively quiet counterpart to a rally earlier yesterday afternoon in front of the Science Center. Students from the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) competed to out-chant students from the Harvard...
...interview on Thursday, Gross said it was no longer feasible for Harvard to absorb as many transfer students in the wake of a spring 2006 decision to increase the size of the freshman class...
...often bitter debate over what causes homosexuality took an unexpected turn this week in the wake of comments by a leading conservative Christian theologian, who says fellow evangelicals should accept that science may one day prove homosexuals are born gay. "We sin against homosexuals by insisting that sexual temptation and attraction are predominately chosen," wrote the Rev. Albert Mohler, the influential president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mohler's position is a startling departure from years of insistence among fundamentalists that gay rights advocates are wrong when they say homosexuality is not something they choose...
...loath to engage the Nazis in a foreign war. It wasn't until that era's "9/11 moment"-the attack on Pearl Harbor-that the U.S. woke up and realized there was a terrible war of civilizations going on. But, boy, when you did wake up, you didn't go to sleep again. In Britain we were being slaughtered, and we were mighty thankful to see the Yanks occupying our countryside, I can tell you. Thank God there were no Kinsleys around wanting to bring the boys home when the going got tough. By comparison, Iraq is a walk...
Hofstadter sees in Gdel's work a structural parallel to the mystery that is the human mind. The brain, which is merely a squishy agglomeration of madly firing neurons, shouldn't by rights be able to think--it shouldn't be able to wake up, twist around, become aware of itself, and in doing so become an "I," but it does. Just like Gdel's mathematics, the mind is a strange, self-referential loop--it's a mirage, Hofstadter writes, but "a very peculiar kind of mirage ... a mirage that perceived itself, and of course it didn...