The people creating programming for a con don’t always know everyone they’re trying to program. They may have their own blind spots. You are allowed to say that they’ve given you too many panels, and suggest which one to take you off of. You are allowed to bow out of diversity ...
Affirmative Action: What Do We Owe One Another? Debate Exposes the Blind Spots among Both Liberals and Conservatives
Focus updates on M.I.T. – the Most Important Things on members’ minds, on which they think the forum can offer some support, ideas or experience. Get to the essence quickly, identifying 3-5 word headlines such as “Messaging to employees,”“supporting elderly parents,” or “conserving...
Could it be mere coincidence whenever I get a high-scoring word the machine immediately saddles me with a U, a V and a C as punishment? In an alternative nightmare, in Scrabble terms, I get four I’s or three G’s and two W’s. *** Born just three years after the last great...
just take my word for it. Another of the Carnegie estate homes (Dungeness) burned to the ground some time ago, and one can explore the ruins, as can the wild horses. Right near there is a more modest house. It was built by Revolutionary War General Nathaniel Greene’s wife. It ...
47. What accounts for the existence of intelligent people's logical blind spots? A) Their irrational way of thinking. C) Their ignorance of behavioral science. B) Too much faith in their ability to think. D) Too much concern about their work. ...
A word spoken is past recalling. 一言既出,驷马难追。 Once bitten, twice shy. 一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳。 Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚,人以群分。 In for a penny, in for a pound. 一不做,二不休。 There is no smoke without fire.无风不起浪 ...
They were intently solving cross-word puzzles!! The ones syndicated from sources abroad to newspapers here. Could see they were more than half way through with those squares! Unabashedly, I opened up a chat with one of them. Sharing years of my own experience and excitement with crosswords ca...
Next, there arethe Dutch, about whom a word must be said. We have seen that they had pushed the cause of Papuan nationalism to the limits of its capacity. They had done so, not because they deemed the time ripe for it, but for political reasons. It was accepted in Papuan circles, ...
Yet even here, in this statement of one person’s certain love for another, the first word we read, not once leading a line but thrice, is “if.” It’s an interesting way to phrase it. Perhaps it’s the true way, the only way. * The words most of us want to hear when in ...