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Defending his nomination of former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, President Obama has studiously avoided the “e-word?? that got him into so much trouble in the past: empathy. As a candidate, and then again when he nominated Sonia M. Sotomayor, Obama listed empathy among the most important virtues a justice could possess. His opponents insisted that the term could only be code for an “activist” judge, which in turn is code for a left-wing judge. But to understand Obama’s insistence...
...effort to comprehend Vu’s brightly-colored paintings of animal and human figures, the observer—trained in our hyperactive descriptive culture of tweets, texts, and Facebook updates—might be tempted to latch onto a single word??hallucinogenic, or even psychedelic. Yet, trying to capture Vu in one word does a disservice to her artistic complexity. As Vu’s thesis advisor, Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department professor Andrew Beattie, says of the “miracle worlds” she paints: “They’re not cute...
During this study—the first to use ICE to study how the brain interprets grammatical rules and produces word??researchers had the patients read a series of words and then reproduce them in different grammatical forms: for example, the inversion of a noun into a plural, or the conversion of a verb into the past tense...
...started asking the question in 1993. Democrats may hold power in Washington, but it seems the country is becoming less—rather than more—socially liberal. Over the past year, more and more Americans appear to be—in the most important sense of the word??values voters...
...issue is also a personal crisis. I’m a liberal in every sense of the word??political and editorial. I think the Constitution is a living document. I believe in the flexibility and inevitable evolution of language. I even think it’s acceptable to—gasp—split my infinitives. Why, then, do I not embrace the new variant “healthcare?...