BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

by Herb Keinon The Prime Minister's Office confirmed Thursday night that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be investigated for an hour Friday morning by the police. According to the PMO, Olmert received a request for the investigation Wednesday. "The Prime Minister intends to cooperate fully with the law enforcement officers as he has done in the past, and he is convinced that when the truth is revealed within the framework of the police investigation, the suspicions against him will be dispelled," a statement issued by the PMO read. The Prime Minister's Office did not specify which of the pending investigations against Olmert the surprise questioning was related to. According to a Channel 2 report Thursday night, the hastily-scheduled investigation by the Fraud Investigation Unit meeting was enabled after police received special authorization from Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz to summon Olmert within 48 hours. Two criminal investigations and one preliminary police pro...

A SPLINTER IN YOUR MIND... DRIVING YOU MAD In the Matrix, which pill would you take, the red or the blue? The question of which pill to take illustrates the personal aspect of the decision to study philosophy. Do you live on in ignorance (and potentially bliss) or do you lead what Aristotle called 'the examined life'... The Matrix is a film filled with religious and philosophical symbolism. The plot supposes that humans live in vats many years in the future, being fed false sensory information by a giant virtual reality computer ( the Matrix ). The perpetrators of this horror are machines of the future who use humans as a source of power. Humans are literally farmed. The central character of the film, Neo, is presented to us in the opening part of the film as a loner who is searching for a mysterious character called Morpheus (named after the Greek god of dreams and sleep ). He is also trying to discover the answer to the question "What is the Matrix?" Morpheus contac...