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[UPDATE] Sentinel - 14 Sept 06 - Earlywine vs Scott

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cassandra
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[UPDATE] Sentinel - 14 Sept 06 - Earlywine vs Scott

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Earlywine Blasts Scott
By CORINNE HATHAWAY

Nathan Earlywine, Council Member and candidate for the Council Leader post, blasted the current policies of sitting leader Camryn Scott today in one of his hallmark open-air public forums, this one in Key Square. "Camryn Scott prides herself on being an administration of delegation," he told the assembled crowd of prospective voters. "I am here to tell you that her kind of delegation is just another way of avoiding responsibility for her decisions."

He went on to chide Scott's continuing refusal to order the Academy under more stringent council authority, despite mounting public pressure to do so. "The people want Sente Kiteway held accountable," he said. "On his watch, the Receda Cube was lost. On his watch, and despite the passage of much time, it has not been found again. On his watch, security failures left the data link to Earth vulnerable, and agents of an unknown power have allegedly travelled to Earth. ... How many more failures will it take for this brand of secretive incompetence to finally be held accountable? The people want results, and Scott is not giving the people what they are demanding."

The crowd cheered Earlywine's statements, and more than a few in the audience told the Sentinel that they had decided to vote for Earlywine based on his rhetoric today. "Councillor Earlywine has a strong, unified vision for the city," said Kam Houghton, a trends analyst for Centrifuge. "I wasn't sure before today, but he's shown me he's the right man for the job."

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The strong words mark a new strategy on the part of Earlywine, who has avoided accusing Scott of ignoring her constituency in such blunt language until now. "Earlywine has detected vulnerability from Scott's camp," said political analyst Jordan Taylor. "The time is ripe for him to move in and press her weak points."

Earlywine's new tactics come at what may prove to be a pivotal point in the political campaign. Popular candidate Douglass Finlay dropped out of the race after revelations about his campaign that have since resulted in criminal charges. Though Finlay had been shedding voters in the weeks before he withdrew his candidacy, his absence has left a significant number of undecided voters that Scott and Earlywine are both wooing heavily.

Recent polls show neither major candidate currently enjoys a marked advantage in the electorate.

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View from Earth:
On Dudeney
By DAN CLARK

Dan ClarkOnly in the last couple of years have we become aware of the existence of Perplex City and your world. Perplex City Academy scholars and historians have had an upper hand in this regard, and have been able to study our history, cultures, and languages in greater depth than we have yours. Those at the Academy thus wisely chose to reveal Perplex City to us through the universal language of puzzles. Equally wise was the choice to use Earth's own history of puzzles and games to ease us into an understanding of your world.

It was partly through a revival of historical Earth puzzles that we have come to know and work with you. Perhaps chief among the unsung heroes of this puzzle revival is Henry Ernest Dudeney (yes, the Dread Pirate himself). H.E. Dudeney is given direct credit on one of the Academy's puzzle cards (I hope that spider catches that fly), apparent credit on another (his cursed medallion), but many others are influenced by him though not directly credited (bookworms, etc.). His influence on the Academy in their quest to relate to us in terms of "simple" Earth puzzles (I don't even want to think about what solving the Mimasan Maze entails) has not been highlighted enough.

H.E. Dudeney was one of the most innovative and influential of Earth's puzzle scribes (to use the Perplexian term). An English author and mathematician, Dudeney had an early penchant for chess -- and chess puzzles -- which matured into a love for puzzles of all kinds. He published puzzles first in newspapers and magazines, some under his pseudonym "Sphinx," some in collaboration with his American counterpart, Samuel Loyd, and eventually gained his status as the foremost English puzzler of his time.

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His own column of puzzles published over two decades in The Strand Magazine (alongside an impressive roster of other contributors) was titled "Perplexities," perhaps indicating a preternatural awareness of our two worlds' eventual meeting.

From verbal arithmetic (send+more=money), to Hendrick and Katrun catching their darned hogs, to Magic Squares, to the Five Pennies, his work was extremely accessible (then and now), and refreshingly novel. He published four books of puzzles in his lifetime, and his wife and others collected enough of his work to fill two more after his death in 1930 (193AC). His Amusements in Mathematics, written nearly a century ago, is in the public domain for us Earthlings to enjoy (Gutenberg e-text #16713). If interested Perplexians would like a copy, I'm sure the Academy has several dog-eared copies lying around!

It is worthwhile to look back to a time that was perhaps simpler, when enjoyment of logic problems and mathematical amusements could be had without the overwhelming political and social unrest seen today in both our worlds. Our love for puzzles, for tackling and overcoming mental challenges, is deeply human and shared by every inhabitant of both our worlds. This is ultimately the cause for the success in our dealing with your world, and you with ours; it is also the reason we will succeed in returning the Receda Cube to you: we simply cannot ignore an interesting problem.

I will leave the last word to Mr. Dudeney, whose work may be the main reason our two worlds have gotten along so well.

"When a man says, 'I have never solved a puzzle in my life,' it is difficult to know exactly what he means, for every intelligent individual is doing it every day. The unfortunate inmates of our lunatic asylums are sent there expressly because they cannot solve puzzles -- because they have lost their powers of reason. If there were no puzzles to solve, there would be no questions to ask; and if there were no questions to be asked, what a world it would be!"

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I finally got around to writing this and finally got my Bogaty sketch!

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