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In a Christian Century interview, Nicholas Wolterstorff, longtime professor of philosophical theology at Yale, says: "I don't agree, then, with the view of many political theorists that when making up our minds about political issues or debating them: In a Christian Century interview, Nicholas Wolterstorff, longtime professor of philosophical theology at Yale, says: "I don't agree, then, with the view of many political theorists that when making up our minds about political issues or debating them in public, we have to appeal to some...; Tags: democracy, professor, Strategy, theorist, Yale University; Research articles 2008-06-01
Correction: "Shadow World: How many dimensions space has could all be a matter of perspective" (SN: 11/17/07, p. 315) incorrectly stated that Niklas Beisert is at Princeton University. He is at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany. His collaborators were his Max Plan& colleague...; Tags: Germany, Netherlands, Potsdam, Princeton University, theorist, Utrecht University; Research articles 2007-12-22
BIG EVENTS BIG CAUSES: MIHOPs, LIHOPs and the 'truth' behind September 11: Despite long and expensive inquiries, thousands of eye witnesses, and conclusive video, sound and picture evidence, more than five years after the attacks, sceptics continue to challenge every part of the official story of what happened on 11 September 2001. Unsourced photos, quotations taken out of context and contused eyewitness...; Tags: attack, Pentagon, SECURITY, theorist, theory, U.S. Government, World Trade Center; Research articles 2007-03-01
Domestic war: Locke's concept of prerogative and implications for U.S. "wars" today *.(John Locke)(Viewpoint essay): "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of exception' in which we live is the rule" Walter Benjamin (1) Introduction A dominant strand of contemporary liberal theory distinguishes between the largely extra-juridical exercise...; Tags: Boston Globe, democracy, Government, SOFTWARE, suspension, Terror, theorist, theory, Viewpoint Corp., welfare; Research articles 2007-01-01
Ceaser, James W.: Nature and History in American Political Development.(Book review): Ceaser, James W. Nature and History in American Political Development Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 229 pp., $25.95, ISBN 0-674-02158-4 Publication Date: March 2006 The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics at Harvard University began in 2004. This book is a...; Tags: Harvard University, professor, theorist; Research articles 2006-06-22

Conflicting IR game plans.: Byline: David James Feb 13, 2006 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Game theorists gave their views on the likely outcome of Australia's proposed industrial relations IR reforms. The theorists,...; Tags: FINANCE, Games, theorist, Victoria University; Research articles 2006-02-13
Magnetic overthrow: physicists expose a hidden facet of a familiar phenomenon: While conducting experiments for his physics Ph.D. in the early 1990s, Dan Ralph suddenly found himself in unfamiliar terrain without a compass. Examining nanoscale sandwiches of magnetic and nonmagnetic materials in a Cornell University lab, Ralph discovered that voltages caused by electric currents passing perpendicularly through these layers would sometimes...; Tags: chip, electron, HARDWARE, magnet, microwave, NETWORKING, NIST, physicist, Semiconductors, theorist; Research articles 2006-01-07
Power: a note on Talcott Parsons and the Brown University conversations: In one sense, the Brown University conversations see Parsons reflecting in a fairly predictable way on the major preoccupations of his intellectual life. The consistent drive to map the social through general theory building is well represented here, as are the polemical foils of utilitarianism and economistic theories of rational...; Tags: analysis, Brown University, inequality, sociology, theorist, theory, transcription; Research articles 2006-01-01
Just passing through.: Byline: Catherine Zandonella Oct 11, 2005 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Professor Moses Chan, from Pennsylvania State University, is convinced that solids can pass through solids. He...; Tags: Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, theorist; Research articles 2005-10-11
STILL RELEVANT: CLAUDE AKE'S CHALLENGE TO MAINSTREAM DISCOURSE ON AFRICAN POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT: INTRODUCTIONThis paper is the result of conversations with a variety of people about the work of Claude Ake. A few were adamant that Ake shifted from a progressive position to a more conservative one in light of his work with the U.S.-based Brookings Institution. Defensively, I attempted to rationalize his...; Tags: Africa, African, analysis, Brookings Institution, democracy, Government, Nigeria, Shell, theorist, theory; Research articles 2005-10-01
Paralyzed or pulverized? The fall of the Republican Guard: Television viewers around the world witnessed the symbolic end of Saddam Hussein's regime on April 9, 2003, as U.S. Marines helped Iraqi citizens destroy a statue of the dictator in Baghdad. Coming 3 weeks after the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the scene seemed to vindicate the "fast and final"...; Tags: Air Force, Baghdad, Guard, paralysis, Republican, Saddam, theorist, theory, U.S.; Research articles 2005-04-01
The Marcuse factor: ONE EXPERIENCE as a graduate student at Yale University that left its lasting mark on me came in the spring of 1964, when HerbertMarcuse arrived to teach a course in the history of socialism, in which I quickly enrolled. With his flowing gray hair, aquiline nose, imposingly long figure, and...; Tags: Brandeis University, Government, professor, SOFTWARE, Telos Corp., theorist, Yale University; Research articles 2005-03-22
How has war changed since the end of the cold war?: The question in this article's title is answered directly in the main section of the analysis below. (1) However, as a necessary precursor to that analysis four caveats, or warnings, are signaled which bear upon the degree of confidence that should, and should not, be placed in strategic futurology. In...; Tags: al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, America, analysis, Strategy, theorist, U.S.; Research articles 2005-03-22
A conversation with Murray Kemp: Abstract: Murray Kemp recalls his decision to study economics, his acquaintance with some founders of Australian academic economics at Melbourne University in the 1940s, his original intellectual influences, his choice of graduate school, his experiences at Cambridge, his difficulties in returning to Australia, his original Keynesian affiliation, the role of...; Tags: Australia, Cambridge, economist, England, Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mathematics, Melbourne, professor, tariff, theorist, theory, University of New South Wales, WAN; Research articles 2005-01-01
Liberalism at bay, conservatism at play: fear in the contemporary imagination: While I was fearing it, it came, But came with less of fear, Because that fearing it so long Had almost made it dear. --Emily Dickinson AMONG THE GREAT COMMONPLACES OF MODERN...; Tags: America, anxiety, identity, inequality, New York Times Co., Richard, theorist, U.S., violence; Research articles 2004-12-22
Extreme impersonations: frigid atomic clouds mimic neutron stars, exotic superconductors, and the newborn universe: Extreme physical conditions have a way of bringing out the strangest behaviors that nature can muster. Just ask physicist John E. Thomas. Two years ago, he and his colleagues at Duke University in Durham, N.C., were working with intense lasers in a high-vacuum chamber at temperatures next to absolute zero....; Tags: Duke University, electron, laser, particle, physicist, plasma, researcher, scientist, team, theorist; Research articles 2004-09-18
In other news from ALA, Sanford Berman and Norman Horrocks have received ALA's honorary membership.(Noted & Quoted)(Brief Article): In other news from ALA, Sanford Berman and Norman Horrocks have received ALA's honorary membership, an honor conferred in recognition of contributions of lasting importance to libraries and librarianship. They will accept honorary membership plaques at the ALA Conference in June. According to...; Tags: ALA, CAREER, librarian, theorist, U.S. Army; Research articles 2004-04-01
A noble failure.(Skepticism And Freedom: A Modern Case For Classical Liberalism)(Book Review): SKEPTICISM AND FREEDOM: A MODERN CASE FOR CLASSICAL LIBERALISM. By RICHARD A. EPSTEIN. University of Chicago Press. 311 pp. $35. We do not lack theoretical "defenses" of liberalism. Indeed, academic political theorists have produced them by the truckload over the past several decades. Restatements...; Tags: autonomy, Government, liberty, SOFTWARE, theorist, University of Chicago; Research articles 2004-01-01
Shapiro, Ian The Moral Foundations of Politics.(Book Review)(Brief Article): Shapiro, Ian The Moral Foundations of Politics New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 288 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0-300-07907-9 Publication Date: February 2003 In The Moral Foundations of Politics, Yale political theorist Ian Shapiro grapples with the enduring question: "When do governments ...; Tags: democracy, Government, legitimacy, SOFTWARE, theorist, Yale University; Research articles 2003-09-22
McLuhan's Canadian Sense of Space, Time and Tactility: Richard Cavell, McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002).Marshall McLuhan's work has not been the subject of many genuinely scholarly books, nor has he, with few exceptions, been regarded as an artist or as a significant figure in the pantheon of Canadian culture. Consequently, Richard...; Tags: Bias, Canada, carpenter, Lewis, Strategy, theorist, Toronto, University of Toronto, vision; Research articles 2002-10-01