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...think about the issues as they come up,” she said. “To have given a direct statement on the merits of the issue in your confirmation hearings...would have the appearance of affecting your thinking,” even if there were no actual influence...
Faculty members, of course, may vary in their interest in teaching at least as much as students do in theirs of actual learning. Still, there is a crucial difference between the two: students, at the end of the term, are graded on their work. If they fail to meet certain minimum requirements they fail the class—and at Harvard they are even forced to take time off. In this case, the quality and timeliness of the feedback I received demonstrated my tutorial leader’s virtual indifference to the course. I wasn’t thrilled with...
...really wants to be an accountant; and Alex's grandfather (Boris Leskin), the driver, who claims to be blind and to require the services of "a seeing eye b____" named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. Alex is one of those young Europeans who dream the American dream but whose actual knowledge of the country consists of half-baked and out-of-date pop-cultural references. The grandfather is full of mysterious anger. The dog is just nuts but salvageable...
...rebellion. He fired off frequent letters filled with instructions for his subordinates. Some were pathetic. In one, he explained guerrilla tradecraft to his inner circle--how to keep in touch with one another, how to establish new contacts, how to remain clandestine. Of course, the people doing the actual fighting needed no such advice, and decisions about whom to attack when and where were made by the cells. Saddam's minions, including al-Duri and al-Ahmed, were away from the front lines, providing money, arms and logistical support for the cells...
...novel. At the end of each chapter, Goldberg drops in imagined conversations between soldiers on leave or on their way to war, passages from a QD Soda newsletter and letters Driscoll wrote in his old age that illuminate the unethical rise of his beverage empire. Additionally, she excerpts actual news stories of the day. Lastly, in the margins of each page are voices from the dead commenting on or clarifying plot points. For example, when, early in the book, Henry fails to appear at the department store for a lunch date, the main text recounts that Lydia "was seized...