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Ever since the edifying life written by his sister in the months
after his death, canonical representations of Blaise Pascal
(1623-1662) have revered him for the scientific genius of his
youth, the religious conversions of his mid-life, and the great
books and greater saintliness of his last years. All this
monumentalizes the hero, but it also reduces the man to a mind and
spirit and it divides his life and work into unrelated halves. The
preeminent specialist, Jean Mesnard, still picks up the subject
where Gilberte Pascal left it in 1662. No historian in our language
has even attempted to put the halves together again. In Pascal: The
Man and His Two Loves, John R. Cole reintegrates a life that began
with familial attachments and achieved youthful marvels of
invention and experiment with an Arithmetic Machine and Vacuum
Experiments; Cole argues that love for his father spun the wheels
and filled the void. Pascal then converted, having suffered
particularly painful separations and losses; Cole's central
chapters adapt Freudian methods to relate his newly ardent love of
God to his prior love of parents. Finally, the convert wrote
contrasting classics, the Provincial Letters and the Penses, before
years of sanctified suffering terminated his work; Cole suggests
that disciplined study of his affective life makes possible new
readings of these great books.
In December 1996, the Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria
(C/SCSC) was officially replaced by the Earned Value Management
Systems (EVMS) criteria. The switch to EVMS, coupled with current
acquisition reform changes, have left many wondering what the
effects of these changes will be. This thesis defines the costs and
benefits of the old C/SCSC, and then compares them. Additionally,
this thesis discusses the changes accompanying the switch to EVMS
and the effect on the costs and benefits.The marginal costs of
C/SCSC are defined as the difference between the costs of a
C/SCSC-compliant system and a contractors 'normal' management
control system.
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