[3020] in Central_America
New quotes for Tue Dec 18
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Tue Dec 18 01:33:21 1990
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 90 01:32:50 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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alois (Marc A Sommer):
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arit (Ari Trachtenberg):
I may be here...but I don't do TRACK.
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cst (Catherine S Trotter):
leaving MIT: 22 December (Saturday)
returning to MIT: 5 January (Saturday)
Between the above dates, I will be somewhere near Salida, Colorado.
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doughty (Francis Doughty):
PLAN/SCHEDULE: I work part-time, 3-days/week, at MIT.
I am in from 8:50 - 4:50 on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY.
Aberrations, vacation days, etc. are posted on the door to 36-677.
Please feel free to call me at home (508/ 544-5450). If you leave a
message, I'll get back to you.
QUOTATION:
"The strength of democracy has been its capacity to confront
difference and to cherish it, not just to think about it as an
impediment to rational decision-making. ...diversity is really what
makes democracy not just a choice but almost an urgency in the coming
future.
Reaganism is a combination of a very strong push toward high
technology and a strong state -- aggressive foreign policy, strong
defense, and the rest of it. But it's also been nostalgic in terms of
nineteenth-century, or even eighteenth-century, values about home,
church, family... It's that peculiar combination of technological
progressivism, in terms of the political state, and a regressive view
toward ethics, morality, piety, and family. It's that American
proclivity toward wanting to find yourself sanctified by some set of
values that you know very well cannot come from what you're actually
into. In other words, defense, high tech, and a strong corporate
system can't generate the kinds of values that really make us
comfortable and that really suggest that the power we have is good and
that we deserve it.
But if, on the other hand, we SAY we're the most moral people
on earth, we have more churches, we have stronger family values, and
we have more simple virtues than anybody who has ever lived, then the
power that we've accumulated in this other area suddenly appears to be
legitimate. The guilty conscience exists, and in its place comes now
the sense that we have a misssion and that our power is sanctified.
...This American longing for the past can be seen as a paradoxical
counterpoint to a people who also believe in the importance of
constant change. ...the progressivism to which the society is committed
doesn't generate values that make people feel good about what they've
done. They've got to find other modes of justification."
-Sheldon Wolin
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kyle (Mary K. Kapuscinski):
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
This week:
x Corrections on my 21.690 paper
\ Corrections on my thesis draft
x Attending my sister's graduation on the 15th
x Finish Christmas/Chanaukah shopping
\ Study for 6.046 final
Study for 21.621 final
(only 24 units left this term!!)
\ == in progress
x == done
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Thoughts for the day:
Today's secret word is Herschel.
No definition for 'Herschel'.
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rburkhar (Robert Burkhardt):
January courses (Lowell Institute School):
C Programming Review
Graphics with GWBASIC
Spring '90 courses:
Graphics Application Programming
C Programming I
C Programming II
(Call 253-4895 for more information.)
Other interests:
GKS (Graphical Kernal System)
Mathematical programming
Tensegrity
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tania (Tania Lewandowski):
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the_doz (KRS-1 (Superhoe 1990)):
"The man with the master plan to make you wiggle and jiggle like gelatin"
-EPMD, "Strictly Business"
"If you're a guy, a nine will do the trick
But if you're a girl, you need some . . . flowers
I'll admit Scott has strange powers
Enticing girls in less than an hour"
-BDP, an old song.
S.B. in 6.3; M.S.(at least . . .) and MBA.
(NOTE: Did someone say . . . 6-A??)
Alternate plan: 'Mo money, 'mo money, 'mo money . . .
U might not like that. If so . . .
"You don't like how I'm livin, well . . ."
-Ice Cube, "The Nigga Ya Love To Hate"
I think that you can figure it out.
Lamont L. Dozier, Jr., PHOne from The Dark Side
Chocolate City, homey!! da crib (C-Town)
471 Memorial Drive #514 2460 E. 64th St. #252N
Cambridge, MA 02139 Cleveland, OH 44104
Peace . . .
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Sooner or later just like the world first day
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away
History will teach us nothing.
-- Sting
Nothing Like the Sun
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vonneidt (Perry N Finley):
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wchuang (Mithrandir):
A man she thinks he never knew about
She hasn't seen him in thirty years-
The mention of his name doesn't bring on tears
If you ask her if there are any regrets,
She'll tell you no, but she never forgets
It was the kind of love you never recover from
Even though she found another one to take his place
She never will escape the truth
At times like this, when the moon is right
When the air is foggy like it is tonight
She'll think about what might have been
If she had just hung on to him
I know a man who has done it all
He's sailed the oceans, climbed the mountains of Nepal
He lives high upon the avenue,
With a beautful wife, lovely children too-
But there's a woman he still dreams about
Certain things he's learned to live without
If you ask him, are there any regrets
He'll tell you no, but he never forgets
It was the kind of love you never recover from
Even though he found another one to take her place
He never will escape the truth
At times like this, when the moon is right
When the air is foggy like it is tonight
He'll think about what might have been
If he had not let her slip away from him.
I read about a woman who said
she'd never regretted anything she'd ever done
such arrogant words seem to be spoken
by those who then die young.
So here am I, looking at you-
Oh tell me, what are we going to do?
Am I destined to be a regret
Are you that one I'll never forget?
Years from now, will we curse the day
You let me let you walk away
Isn't this too dear a price to pay
For the freedom of going separate ways?
This is the kind of love you never recover from
Don't tell me that I'm going to find another one
to take your place
And try to face the truth
Let me hold you close tonight-
The fog is lifted, the moon is so bright
Think how sweet life could be
If you would stay with me, oh stay with me
This is the kind of love you never recover from
This is the kind of love you never recover from
-Christine Lavin
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