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Machiavelli : a biography
Examines the life of the Florentine intellectual, his relationships with contemporaries ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Cesare Borgia and Pope Alexander VI, his philosophies about power, and the legacy of The Prince.
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Nudging fallible humans toward rational choices
Where possible, Sunstein believes, solutions to life's inequities should be sought in market-friendly methods and gentle nudges rather than Soviet style 5-year plans. [...]he prefers the Earned Income Tax Credit to a mandated minimum wage to address wealth disparity, and incentive-based programs to strict prohibitions when it comes to cleaning up the environment.
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\Machiavellian\
After When his sister died, Machiavelli raised her infant son, Giovanni[radical], as his own, adding to the burdens of an already stretched family budget.
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A betrayal of trust at Brandeis
It not only deprives the community of vital resources but, more importantly, cheapens the entire notion of a liberal education by reducing these cultural artifacts and the ideas they embody to cash equivalents.
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Sharp Vistas Of Yesteryear, Frozen in Time
SALEM, Massachusetts -- For centuries the polar landscape stood as the embodiment of nature's stern and heartless grandeur. Now it is viewed as mortally wounded by carbon-producing humans who have reduced mighty glaciers to quivering slush.
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Yesterday's Pristine Vistas, Frozen in Time
Bringing together more than 50 works by well- and lesser-known artists -- mostly from Britain and the United States, with contributions as well by colleagues in Canada and Scandinavia -- the show pays homage to the great age of polar landscape painting, when the world, at least at its extremities, felt both mysterious and dangerous and when nature could still put up a fight. The few signs of human presence serve merely to draw attention to the futility of human endeavor -- the matchstick boat and the dog sled scurrying, insectlike, across the frozen ocean.
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Yesterday's Pristine Vistas, Frozen in Time
FOR centuries the polar landscape stood as the embodiment of nature's stern and heartless grandeur. Now it is viewed as mortally wounded by big-footing humans who have reduced mighty glaciers to quivering slush.
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Yesterday's Pristine Vistas, Frozen in Time
Bringing together more than 50 works by well- and lesser-known artists -- mostly from Britain and the United States, with contributions as well by colleagues in Canada and Scandinavia -- the show pays homage to the great age of polar landscape painting, when the world, at least at its extremities, felt both mysterious and dangerous and when nature could still put up a fight. The few signs of human presence serve merely to draw attention to the futility of human endeavor -- the matchstick boat and the dog sled scurrying, insectlike, across the frozen ocean.
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