and progressive politics (including Deepak Chopra, Rupert Sheldrake, Gary Null, John Pilger, and George Galloway) have complained of persistent negative coverage on Wikipedia despite the site’s vaunted neutrality and the promise that “Biographies of Living Persons” are held to the highest standard...
Napoleon claims credit for the idea of building the windmill, claiming that Snowball was only trying to win animals to his side. The animals work harder with the promise of easier lives with the windmill. When
Certainly, much has been made of Wikipedia over the years. It has served as a case study for the reliability of truth within crowd-sourced material, the strength of neutrality, 21st century educational practices, and thealmostorganic rise of an oligarchy from within an anarchy. But perhaps what...
The "Land of Beulah" is Middlesex county north and west of London, which then (over 150 years before modern suburban sprawl started) had pretty villages, market gardens, and estates containing beautiful parks and gardens): "woods of Islington to the green hills of Hampstead & Highgate";[40]...
[5] For this and other reasons, most modern Freemasons regard the traditional concern over secrecy as a demonstration of their ability to keep a promise[6] and as a surrogate for the organization’s concern over the privacy of their own affairs.[7][8] The private aspects of modern ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, some writers (notably Philip Larkin and Randall Jarrell) lamented that Auden’s work had declined from its earlier promise.[42][43] By the time of Auden’s death in 1973 he had attained the status of a respected elder statesman. The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes...
At this point, quantum computers showed promise of being much faster than classical computers for certain specific problems. One such example problem was developed by David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa, known as the Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm. This problem however held little to no practical applications....
so there's a promise there, but we also spend a third of our time on business and we're certainly going to learn some about that this week, and a third of our time on life. You know, the thing that we all live, that we try to do the best we can. Investing business in life ...
So yeah, CSS specs sucks. CSS3 specs sucks more. UAs CSS implementations, CSS 2.1 or CSS 3, sucks. Get it now? It has a promise it never fulfils. That’s why SP CSS Forum is so active. rguy84 SitePoint Wizard Jan 2011 Kyle, you could argue that almost anything done in CSS asid...
[70][71] By this time, however, (due to congressional opposition) Nixon was in no position to make such a promise, since the possibility of obtaining the requisite congressional appropriations was nil.[72] The South Vietnamese president, however, still refused to agree. On the 14th Nixon ...