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  AllRefer.com - Wolin, Poland (Polish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Wolin or Wollin[both: vO´lEn] Pronunciation Key, island, 95 sq mi (246 sq km), off the coast of Pomerania, in the Baltic Sea, and belonging to Poland.
Wolin is separated from the mainland by the Zalew Szczecinski (Stettiner Haff).
The principal town, Wolin, is a fishing port.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wolin.html   (204 words)

  
 Arizona Daily Wildcat - Focus & Fun - Friday September 12, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wolin said the nation is able to extend full scholarships for higher education to all tribe members but wanted to give back to the community as well, so they offered one scholarship to a non-Native American at every school in their district.
Wolin applied in her senior year of high school, which was also the first year of the program, to receive the award.
Wolin admits the distance is difficult, but long ago she made the decision that the relationship is definitely worth the effort involved.
wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/97/14/04_1.html   (891 words)

  
 The Chronicle: 1/18/2002: Richard Wolin, an Intellectual Historian, Works at the Bloody Crossroads of Ideas and Ideology
Wolin suggested that their relationship had clouded her judgment of his work; the woman who wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism later published essays that excused her ex-lover's support for the Nazis on the grounds that his mind was too refined and aloof to have grasped the brutality of the movement he had joined.
Wolin pursues critics of "bourgeois democracy" (as he might have called it in his New Left days) does not mean that the intellectual historian has become a conservative.
Wolin recalls reaching an "intellectual turning point" 20 years ago, when he attended a series of lectures by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who is often considered the last member of the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxist social critics.
chronicle.com /free/v48/i19/19a01201.htm   (2663 words)

  
 Minimally Invasive Procedures Promise Maximum Outcomes by Judith Gunn Bronson, MS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wolin tests the stability of the shoulder before concluding the procedure; if he is unsatisfied, he proceeds immediately to an open surgical procedure.
Wolin also sees a role for RF surgery in injuries to the posterior cruciate ligament, in which today’s conventional repairs do not meet the same degree of success seen for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament.
Wolin expects the future use of RF procedures to be widespread, and he believes that the capsular shift will be broadly employed.
www.orthopedictechreview.com /issues/decjan00/pg34.htm   (1674 words)

  
 REVIEW ESSAY: ROHR, FREDERICKSON AND WOLIN ON THE "BIG QUESTIONS" AND THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In Wolin’s theory, the uniqueness of the American political experience in the late eighteenth century, as the state and Constitutional theory developed, was to assign the state a strategic role in the development of economic life.
Wolin’s view of the Philadelphia Convention was as a revolutionary strategy for establishing a central government that broke with the established direction of political development and the experience of the Thirteen Colonies.
Wolin does this in an essay critical of college curricula shaped by a concern for jobs at the expense of the study of literature, philosophy, history and art.
www.pamij.com /99_4_4_Cerami.html   (6069 words)

  
 Two Cheers for Democracy (washingtonpost.com)
Wolin argues that Tocqueville's embrace of political liberty as the central political value stokes his fear that "a combination of political democracy and social equality" poses a dire threat to freedom.
Wolin delves into Tocqueville's response to this peril, including the daunting role he assigned to religion and settled ideas about the moral life in taming the materialistic egalitarianism that arises from a highly individualistic market society.
Wolin concludes that the course of democratic life in America since the 19th century presents a "crisis of the political" from whose challenges Tocqueville himself shrank as his own politics became more fearful and problematic.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64897-2001Nov8¬Found=true   (639 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 00069285
When Wolin's engagement with the role of tacit knowledge is joined to his pagan appreciation of a deep plurality of being he is pulled toward inserting into the very idea of the political a constitutive tension between established commonality and the politics of becoming.
To the extent Wolin acknowledges a constitutive tension between the politics of established commonality and the politics of becoming, by which the common is changed or pluralized, we are his allies.
Wolin, for instance, fears that the proliferation of difference will overwhelm the possibility of democratic action in concert; but he also resists consolidation of the common into a unity tight enough to be a nation.
www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/prin031/00069285.html   (6964 words)

  
 Business Wire: AMD Names Harry Wolin Vice President of Intelle... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Prior to joining AMD, Wolin was with Motorola for 12 years and held a number of positions within its legal organization, primarily in intellectual property law.
Wolin, whose principal office will be in Austin, said, "AMD is a technology leader in high speed microprocessor and flash memory design as well as in process development and manufacturing.
Wolin received a degree in chemistry from the University of Arizona in 1984.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:64991867&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (428 words)

  
 Heidegger's Children : Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse - EBooks Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wolin's introductory chapter sets a context -- the real problem for Heidegger's students was to determine whether or not there was something integral, something necessary in the connection between the political totalitarian and vicious National-Socialism and Heidegger's existentialist ideas.
Wolin, a historian at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is far more fond of these thinkers than he is of their mentor, but he frets that their work, like that of Derrida, exhibits ''a series of deep-seated prejudices'' about the modern West that reveals their Heideggerian pedigree.
Partly, Wolin suggests, it was because they were secular, assimilated Jews who had staked their German identity on their mastery of the nation's cultural traditions, and Heidegger stood as a sort of ''self-proclaimed heir'' to those traditions.
www.ebooksmart.com /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=069111479X   (2963 words)

  
 Illuminations: Best
Wolin's standpoint is clearly neo-Marxist and is strongly influenced by the Frankfurt School, Habermas in particular, and he seeks to create a stronger modern critical position through confrontation with other theories.
Wolin finds this turn a regression behind the better aspects of interdisciplinary research and a forfeiture of the positive aspects of enlightenment reason which are reduced to a project of instrumental domination.
Wolin argues convincingly that Derrida intends deconstruction to be a form of materialist criticism that challenges the notion of the autonomy of the text.
www.uta.edu /english/dab/illuminations/best5.html   (2582 words)

  
 law.com - Recusal Refusal
Now Wolin has handed down an opinion that speaks directly to the appellate court, defending his use of a team of advisers, explaining his creative and novel approaches to case management in such a massive case, and answering his critics' charges point for point.
Although his critics have argued that Wolin chose biased advisers and then proceeded to give them too much power over the cases, Wolin insists that the advisers were brought in purely to educate the court and had no power unless given a specific task by the court.
Wolin urged the appellate court to give trial judges the freedom to be creative in case management, especially in mass tort cases, and to acquire the education needed to tackle the case wisely.
www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1075219887220   (1061 words)

  
 the wolin lab - publications
Dong, G., Chakshusmathi, G., Wolin, S.L. and Reinisch, K.M. Structure of the La motif: a winged helix domain mediates RNA binding via a conserved aromatic patch.
Long, K.S., Cedervall, T., Walch-Solimena, C., Noe, D.A., Huddleston, M.J., Annan, R.S. and Wolin S.L. Phosphorylation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae La protein does not appear to be required for its functions in tRNA maturation and nascent RNA stabilization.
Chen X., Quinn, A.M. and Wolin, S.L. Ro ribonucleoproteins contribute to the resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans to ultraviolet irradiation.
info.med.yale.edu /bcmm/wolin/publications.htm   (376 words)

  
 Comparative Literature: Book reviews -- The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, ...
Wolin's own theoretical sympathies lie with the Frankfurt School, but he is not uncritical in his observations on their project.
Ultimately, Wolin asserts, Foucault never overcame a futile search for normative grounding in the "other" of reason, and his aesthetic voluntarism, derived from Nietzsche and apparent in the final two volumes of The History of Sexuality, is the unfortunate consequence of this search.
Although Wolin's well-argued and thoughtful essays would be a welcome corrective to much of the trendy theory that abounds among students of literature, those most in need of correction are unlikely ever to read them, or, if they do, to entertain the alternative of antifoundationalist, communicative, ethical thought that Wolin obviously prefers.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3612/is_199507/ai_n8723237   (1148 words)

  
 The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wolin argues that each of these represented a rearticulation and extension of the writer's previous studies, all of which brought together socially and politically charged ideas born of World War I, the Great Depression, and the aesthetic movement of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Wolin suggests that Burke turned to psychology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion, while increasing his focus on rhetoric and the general nature of language, in the hope of overcoming the formidable rhetorical problems that his scrambling of intellectual categories inevitably produced.
Wolin contends that by the time Burke formulated his theory of dramatism in A Grammar of Motives, his complex and abstract discussions of philosophy and linguistics obscured the strongly social and political aims of his writings.
www.sc.edu /uscpress/2001/3404.html   (398 words)

  
 Andrew M. Wolin, M.D., F.A.C.S. Plastic Surgery Cosmetic Surgery Phoenix AZ, Scottsdale AZ, Facelift, Rhinoplasty, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Andrew M. Wolin, M.D. is an artist in the conventional meaning of the word and also an artist in his approach to cosmetic surgery.
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awolin.com   (542 words)

  
 Boston.com / Business / Federal judge removed from asbestos cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wolin, who sits in Newark, had refused to recuse himself last year after some of those involved claimed some of his advisers had conflicts of interest.
Wolin was assigned the five cases in late 2001 by the chief judge of the 3rd Circuit in what Wolin has described as an "unprecedented concentration of authority over nationwide asbestos litigation" for coordinated management of the complex cases.
Wolin said he had neither a personal bias toward any party, nor personal knowledge of disputed evidence, reasons a judge must disqualify himself.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/05/18/federal_judge_removed_from_asbestos_cases   (491 words)

  
 Ex-Judge To Join Asbestos Adviser Law Firm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wolin, in a statement the firm distributed Wednesday, said he chose it in mid-July after discussions with several firms, noting its "outstanding quality and reputation," particularly in the federal arena.
Wolin opposed the move, as did Grace, Owens-Corning and lawyers for asbestos victims, who said delays would harm the bankrupt companies and people suffering from asbestos-related problems.
Wolin, 71, had been chosen to oversee the five cases in late 2001 by the chief judge of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in what Wolin has described as an "unprecedented concentration of authority over nationwide asbestos litigation" for coordinated management of the complex cases.
www.lexisone.com /news/ap/ap072904f.html   (390 words)

  
 Greg Barns reviews Richard Wolin's expose of postmodernists including Jacques Derrida: 'The seduction of reason'. - On ...
Nietzsche, Wolin correctly surmises, was delusional (he wrote to musician Carl Fuchs in 1888, "I shall be ruling the world from now on") and an enemy of democracy.
Wolin couples Derrida's view that law and justice never coincide ("general maxims - be they moral, constitutional, or legal - are intrinsically incapable of doing justice to the specificity of the individual case") with his preparedness to sanction "a violent act of revolutionary founding" because it creates a pristine abyss.
Wolin accuses the post-modernists of being “inconsistent and confused.” On the one hand, he notes, they “bask in the freedoms of political liberalism - to whose institutions they are indebted for their brilliant academic careers - while biting the hand that feeds them”.
www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=2636   (1573 words)

  
 Wolin on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wolin is separated from the mainland by the Zalew Szczeciński (Stettiner Haff).
Tee time; For Jennifer Wolin of ej tees, the business of T-shirts in anything but basic.
Kirkpatrick and Lockhart Extends its National Reach In Merger with Texas-Based Wolin, Ridley and Miller LLP.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Wolin.asp   (304 words)

  
 Sail S/Y Ellen in Poland: Wolin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Via Wolin you can, if you are able to pass under a 12.5 m high bridge, sail northwards to Dziwnow and the Baltic Sea.
Wolin is one of the most ancient towns at the Baltic Sea.
Wolin was also an important cultural and religious center for the Slavic god Svantevit (the main temple was situated at point Arkona, Rügen.
www.ellennet.com /english/wollin.htm   (263 words)

  
 The Claremont Institute: An Ambivalent Tocqueville
Wolin's explication of Tocqueville's works is, to repeat, solid and at times excellent—especially his treatment of the New England township and of the ideological character of modernity.
Wolin never appreciates that for Tocqueville, religion is not so much a means of social control as a source of strength—of empowerment, as we now say—for individuals as well as peoples.
Wolin refers to texts proving that Tocqueville is well aware that an appearance of disinterested passion is an attractive quality in a politician.
www.claremont.org /writings/crb/fall2002/winthroptocque.html   (1605 words)

  
 Pictures of Wolin Island, Poland
Wolin Island, situated in the Baltic Sea, just across the German-Polish border, is an interesting place.
Wolin Island used to be a very important place for the Vikings, a thousand years ago.
In World War II, Wolin Island was the place where Hitler's V3 rockets were developed and tested.
www.bamjam.net /Poland/Wolin.html   (291 words)

  
 law.com - Federal Judge Removed From Three Asbestos Cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In their motions seeking Wolin's disqualification, lawyers argued that some of Wolin's court-appointed advisers suffer from a "blatant conflict" that has infected how the judge views the cases.
In response, Wolin handed down an opinion that spoke directly to the appellate court, defending his use of a team of advisers, explaining his creative and novel approaches to case management in such a massive case, and answering his critics' charges point for point.
But Wolin's critics complained that creativity became impropriety due to the judge's decision to appoint a team of advisers -- and specifically two advisers who suffered from conflicts of interest -- as well as his practice of conducting ex parte meetings on a regular basis.
www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1084824760125   (1402 words)

  
 Presence of the Past by Sheldon Wolin - A Book Review by Scott London
Bicentennials "are by nature civic," Wolin writes, public "rituals organized to promote a mythic history." While they appear to be celebrating the past, however, they tell us more about our collective identity in the present.
After a brief introduction, Wolin looks at what he considers "the main paradox at the center of the American Constitution": the dual principles of restrained and divided power, on the one hand, and the sovereign power of "the people," on the other.
In "Democracy and the Welfare State," Wolin sketches a theory of state power based on the connection between the concept of Reason of State (staatsrason) and the principles of the welfare state.
www.scottlondon.com /reviews/wolin.html   (509 words)

  
 'Mission accomplished,' Wolin stepping down from federal bench (phillyBurbs.com) | New Jersey News
However, his departure does not create a vacancy on the bench because he was considered a "senior judge," a status given to judges over 65 who are allowed to remain on the bench.
The panel said Wolin had committed no wrongdoing and displayed no bias, but his actions gave the appearance of prejudice.
Wolin had refused to recuse himself last year after some of those involved in the cases claimed some of his advisers had conflicts of interest.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/104-06042004-311584.html   (281 words)

  
 Asia Times - Hong Kong and intellectual property
Wolin - one of the overseas investors in Hong Kong that InvestHK is supposed to nurture - found herself saddled with concerns about the agency's honesty with her.
Wolin asked again "because, as I told him the first time around, I needed to be paid for every single brochure produced illicitly by InvestHK before I would sign.
The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), which followed the case and is assisting Wolin with a possible appeal of the verdict, expressed concern over the livelihood and freedom-of-expression issues the ruling raised, as well as the government ethics on display in the case.
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/EH27Ad03.html   (974 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: 'L'Affaire Derrida': Yet Another Exchange
Sheehan contentedly putting in brackets "[i.e., Wolin]" in a footnote, without bothering to point out his addition in the body of the text, thus letting the reader ignorant of French believe that this travestied sentence is Derrida's.
But Wolin appears to have long since made up his mind that Derrida's work "deconstructs into nonexistence the gravity of Heidegger's Nazism" (NYR, March 25), and he was not about to expose his conviction—or his translation—to scrutiny from a thinker he so desperately seeks to condemn and disqualify.
Derrida did that not because Wolin had acted illegally (he had not), not because Wolin had been discourteous (he was not), not because the translation is "execrable" (it is not, and there are infinitely worse translations of Derrida).
www.nybooks.com /articles/2591   (1945 words)

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