When a Single Story Has a Thousand Sides
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âRenditionâ tries to be thoughtful and respectful of complexity while at the same time honoring the imperatives of commercial entertainment.
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How many paragraphs of rules and regulations can a society have before no one can predict how it will respond to critical situations?  The answer, as demonstrated on 9/11/2001 is:  "Not very many."  Lawyers need to go open source and let the public bang on their code.
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Zeno of Elea famously postulated his many paradoxes in defence of Parmenides' worldview: that all is "oneness," and pluralism is merely an illusion.    Of his forty paradoxes, the four most enduring have fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and regular pundits for millennia.    As one of the many pundits ensnared by Zeno's challenges, I will present my own analysis of arguably his most famous paradox of all: The race between Achilles and the tortoise.
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The importance of keeping personal matters personal Comment Sometimes I hear a story that is simply breathtaking in its stupidity and potential for disaster. For your delectation, horror, and amazement, here is one relayed to me by a good friend a few days ago.â¦
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The current story-line is NOT autobiographical. Angela and I will be celebrating 12 years of marital bliss in Feb and are in no danger of divorce. If anything, the fact that I&#8217;ve never really been touched by divorce, even in my extended family, makes me wholly unqualified to write this arc. So I&#8217;m trudging through to [...]
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Sometimes one retirement account really isn't enough.
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By Mario Perez, ABC. A plane crash. An uncharted island. A tiny band of frightened survivors. Out of these familiar adventure-story components and a host of pop-culture conventions
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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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Perhaps perspective can be gained from the case of another controversial historical figure.
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Letâs not lose the plot. In defense of âbadâ words in childrenâs books.
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The human beings behind the business headlines can sometimes become lost.
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They have their stories. Sad stories. Hard-luck stories. Backs-against-the-wall stories. It is those stories that make them so appreciative of their situation, so hard-working, so unselfish, and probably so underappreciated by others.
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Writing a song that touches the hearts of millions is hard enough.
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Sometimes, when you're living through an event, you can be too close to what's happening to realize the magnitude of it.
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There's only one problem with the storyline proclaiming that the country swung to the right on cultural issues in 2004. It is fiction.
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Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
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A popular weekly recently had one-quarter of its stories rejected out of hand. Editors don't ask why.