One of the most interesting paradoxes in America today is that Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is now engaged in a serious debate about what a university should be, and whether it is measuring up. Like the Roman Catholic church and other ancient institutions, it is asking-still in private rather than in public whether its past assumptions about faculty, authority, admission, courses of study, are really relevant to the problems of the 1990’ s. Should Harvard--or any other university--be an intellectual sanctuary, apart from the political and social revolution of the age, or should it be a laboratory for experimentation with these political and social revolutions; or even an engine of the revolution This is what is being discussed privately in the big clapboard houses of faculty members around the Harvard Yard.Walter Lip Mann, a distinguished Harvard graduate, defined the issue several years ago. "If the universities axe to do their work." he said," they must be independent and they must be disinterested... They are places to which men can turn for judgments which are unbiased by partisanship and special interest. Obviously, the moment the universities fall under political control, or under the control of private interest, or the moment they themselves take a hand in politics and the leadership of government, their value as independent and disinterested sources of judgment is impaired ..."This is part of the argument that is going on at Harvard today. Another part is the argument of the militant and even many moderate students: that a university is the keeper of our ideals and morals, and should not be "disinterested" but activist in bringing the nation’ s ideals and actions together.Harvard’ s men of today seem more trebled and less sure about personal, political and academic purpose than they did at the beginning. They are not even clear about how they should debate and resolve their problems but they are struggling with privately, and how they come out is bound to influence American university and political life in the 1990’ s. The" paradoxes" in the passage mean ().
A. unusual situations
B. difficult puzzles
C. abnormal conditions
D. self-contradictions
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下列程序的输出结果是______。 #define P(a) printf("%d,",(int)(a)) #define PRINT(a)P(a);printf("the end") main() int i,a=0; for(i=1;i<5;i++) PRINT(a+i); printf("\n");
2002年4月,甲租用乙的一间平房经营日用品,双方约定,租用期为3年,每年租金为6000元;每半年结算一次租金。双方未就维修义务的承担作出约定。2003年7月,由于当地连日降雨,致使该租赁房屋承重墙下沉并出现了3厘米宽的裂缝,房屋有倒塌的危险。甲要求乙维修,乙未答复。甲无奈自己请来建筑队,对房屋进行加固维修,共花费人民币1260元。但房屋倒塌危险仍未消除。当年10月,甲与乙结算当期的房租时,要求扣除其花费的维修费用并提出解除合同,乙不同意,甲随后搬离该房屋。[要求] 根据上述事实及《合同法》的规定,回答下列问题: 甲是否有权要求扣除维修费用简要说明理由
Strong playersVideo games let you escape into an alternative reality -- something gaming firms know about at first hand. For as other technology firms face stagnant or shrinking markets, the video-games industry seems to inhabit a parallel universe. It has had a bumper year, maybe the best it ever will. Global sales of games software and hardware will exceed $31 billion this year. This summer, UBS Warburg invested 17% of its model technology portfolio in two games publishers, Electronic Arts and Activision. Gaming, it seems, is recession-proof.The industry is booming because it has its own cycle, as one generation of hardware succeeds another every few years. (8) Games consoles are flying off the shelves. The current line-up is of Sony’s PlayStation2, the market leader by far, plus Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo’s GameCube, which are fighting for a distant second place.Each gaming boom is bigger than the last. Children who have grown up with games keep on playing, which expands the market. It also increases the players’ average age: the average American gamer is 28. (9) This shift is reflected in the rise of "mature"-rated games, which now account for 13% of the American market, up from 6% in 2001.(10) Many observers are optimistic about the prospects for games sales next year, particularly in America. But the figures suggest that 2002 was the peak of the cycle, and that the market will shrink next year. Other observers expect console sales to grow only slightly next year.Things will then cool off until the next generation of consoles appears in 2005. The next peak is not expected until 2007. (11) Both are dwarfed by console gaming at the moment, but are the focus of much activity, and could provide recurring revenues to help smooth out the industry’s cyclical nature.Online gaming has got off to a small but promising start in recent weeks with the release of adaptors that link consoles over the Internet. In America, Microsoft sold 150,000 starter kits for its "Xbox Live" service within a week of its launch last month. Sony says it has signed up 175,000 subscribers to its rival online service, launched in August. Both services will launch in Europe next year.Gaming on mobile phones is also taking small but crucial steps forward. Today’s phones mostly have one or two simple games built in. The latest handsets have colour screens and can download software remotely. (12) Games take roughly a minute to download, but adding one to a handset is almost as easy as downloading a new ringing tone or screen logo. It is predicted that mobile-gaming revenues will reach $3.5 billion in the next five years; other estimates are higher. 10()
A. Older players tend to have more disposable income to spend on games than do teenagers.
B. Their processing power matches that of the arcade-game machines of the 1980s, so classic games run well.
C. But how much longer will the good times last
D. That cycle, unrelated to the broader economic cycle, is now at or near its peak.
E. But the industry has two new tricks up its sleeve, in the form of online and mobile gaming.
F. They are so wisely designed that they can be connected to any game machines.
G. It has had a bumper year, maybe the best it ever will.
下列程序输出的结果是______。 int m=17; int fun(int x,int y) int m=3; return(x*y-m); main() int a=5,b=7; printf("%d\n",fun(a,b)/m);