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...Vice President Anne M. Fernandez ’03 presided over their last council meeting, for which council members traditionally come to Sever in formal attire. Lee and Fernandez thanked friends, family and the rest of the council, as they reviewed their terms in office and shared some wisdom with their colleagues...
...Elohim "are not gods," but beings, "like we are," says Marsic. The difference is that the Elohim have a "higher wisdom level...
...Raelian marriage celebrates partnerships of people who wish to live together, with a benevolent look to future separations. "The idea is people commit themselves to keep a high level of love and harmony between them and to have the wisdom to separate before this level of harmony decreases too much," Marsic says. "So, we actually encourage divorce when people don?t feel like being together...
...describing but Woodrow Wilson. When Wilson set off for the peace conference in Paris at the end of World War I, he was, said John Maynard Keynes (the source of the waspish comments above) endowed with a "prestige and a moral influence throughout the world unequaled in history." Conventional wisdom holds that he wasted these assets. As Margaret MacMillan documents in her new history, Paris 1919, Wilson's commitments to self-determination, democracy and nation building (although the phrase was not then in vogue) were frequently frustrated at the peace conference by Europeans interested mainly in land grabs. After...
Sometimes wrong but rarely in doubt, Stephen Jay Gould was a 19th century naturalist plunked down in the 20th century. His most notable scientific achievement was the theory of "punctuated equilibria" (co-authored with Niles Eldredge), arguing that species don't evolve gradually, as the conventional wisdom suggested, but rather remain unchanged for long periods, then undergo rapid bursts of change. His papers, essays, books and lectures brought Gould's wide-ranging intellect to the attention of the public--while burying his intellectual opponents under the weight of millions of words. Along the way, the politically left-wing scientist...