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...Percentage of motorists who admit they "often" or "sometimes" talk on a cell phone while driving...
Speaking last October at his installation ceremony, University President Lawrence H. Summers seemed in no doubt about the shortcomings of Harvard’s Core. “[Harvard is a] University, where few would admit—and none would admit proudly—to not having read any plays by Shakespeare or to not knowing the meaning of the categorical imperative, but where it is all too common and all too acceptable not to know a gene from a chromosome or the meaning of exponential growth.” Unfortunately, as Summers may now know after a year...
...hands in his lap and fixes me with a pensive gaze. I try my best to look studious and upstanding as I explain to him my situation. I’m writing a personal narrative, I begin. Pause. Well, I don’t really understand religion, I admit. Sometimes, I even have a hard time relating to very religious people. I ask him if he has a similar problem with people like myself. “If I’m too religious, I do,” Gomes confesses. “I can intimidate people...
...presentation of the award during Game Four of this year’s World Series was made even more embarrassing by the fans’ embrace of Pete Rose. Rose still refuses to admit he gambled on baseball despite volumes of evidence pointing his guilt. If you’ve ever seen him interviewed, he routinely acts like James Traficant in his bizarre denials and frequent assaults on reality. Beam me up, Pete...
...happens more often than anyone wants to admit. Turow eventually won Hernandez's acquittal, making him one of 13 people on death row in Illinois who have been exonerated since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977. In 2000, Governor Ryan declared an indefinite moratorium on executions and appointed Turow to the death-penalty commission...