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Nelson and the BSA had not know about the sit-in beforehand, and did not participate. Nelson chose instead to try to mediate between the administration and the protestors. The sit-in ended peacefully, and the University's subsequent success in hiring high-profile professors was, many say, a result of the very visible student protest...
...lives and works amid a genial hurly-burly, with room for all kinds of stray inspirations and serendipitous touches to worm their way into his movies. What Altman pursues is not looseness for its own sake, but surprise -- both for himself and for moviegoers: he didn't know beforehand the tics and shadings performers like Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg (who play police officers) would bring to their characters, for instance, and the movie-within-a-movie surprise he gives the audience near the end of The Player is profoundly pleasurable...
Many others agree that preregistration is the only way to ensure class size beforehand, guaranteeing teaching fellow jobs and eliminating the anxiety for graduate students...
...consent; it requires verbalizations or actions definable at the whim of the Ad Board. The expressed consent requirement restricts the freedom of choice for couples in long-term sexual relationships, who know the intimate preferences of their partners and are thus able to engage in sexual intercourse without discussing beforehand what types of acts they will perform. For example, the proposed rule would have branded a former hallmate of mine as a rapist since his girlfriend would frequently awaken him in the morning through oral stimulation, evincing her desire for intercourse, which usually ensued with no discussion between them...
...author's credit, nearly all the answers to the puzzle he creates are unexpected, even though many clues pointing toward them have been inserted in the text beforehand. Anne's behavior, for example, once she has been left alone, takes a shocking turn; yet a cluster of details and insights into her character save this transformation from the realm of the unbelievable...