The James Logan Courier

By Harman Badwal, Courier Staff Writer

The popular video game Hitman had been retold in a feature film directed by Xavier Gens.

The plot of the film is about a genetically engineered assassin with a robotic mind and a barcode tattooed on his head, known only as Agent 47, played by Timothy Olyphant. Throughout the story, 47 is assigned to kill various persons by a group known as "The Agency, " for cash.

He is generally successful in doing this, but there is a twist when one assignment goes awry, which changes the whole situation and sends him on a personal mission to find out who betrayed him. He is pursued by the Russian military and agents of Interpol, as well as other assassins hired to kill him.

From wikipedia:

Anne (nee: Finch) Conway, Viscountess Conway (14 December 1631–1679) was an English philosopher whose work, in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists, was an influence on Leibniz.

She was born to Frances (daughter of Sir Edmund Bell of Beaupre Hall in Norfolk) and Sir Heneage Finch (who had held the posts of the Recorder of London and Speaker of the House of Commons under Charles I). Her father died the week before her birth. Her early education was by tutors and included Latin, to which she later added Greek and Hebrew. Her stepbrother, John Finch, was educated at Cambridge, and Anne Finch (as she then was) came into contact with one of his tutors, the Platonist Henry More. This led to a correspondence between them on the subject of Descartes' philosophy, in the course of which Anne grew from More's informal pupil to his intellectual equal. More said of her that he had "scarce ever met with any Person, Man or Woman, of better Natural parts than Lady Conway" (quoted in Richard Ward's The Life of Henry More (1710) p.193).

Read Anne Conway’s Critique of Cartesian Dualism, by Louise D. Derksen, free from Boston University.