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...extra special smart. Please prepare for a volcanic eruption of mental manure." Calling the TF by name when you already have her attention (as in "Well, Carol, I have always had a special love for special relativity. I have a tat-too mural of `Einstein Working at a Black-board' on my behind, as, Carol, I'm sure you do as well") is the International Sign that you are counting on making Carol so uncomfortable that she'll never call on you and you can stop doing the reading. Carefully flipping through the reading like you're looking...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: The Universal Language | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...calling for successive 10-, 9- and 8-per-cent raises. The University said it would contract out the Harkness dining hall at the Law School. To its credit, Harvard assured that none of the Harkness employees were laid off. But Walden understood when Harkness workers threw chairs at the black-board in the Science Center room where the union held its ratification vote late last May because he was a cook at Harkness...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Laborious Task | 11/15/1980 | See Source »

...changed. The basic material is a maze of rules, jargon and graphs with a compelling internal logic of its own--but little link to economic reality. Students become so entranced by neatly chalked and multi-colored supply and demand curves that they can't step back from the black-board to figure out what the material is really about...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Spinach and Sandcastles | 2/17/1976 | See Source »

...moment when Timilty began his concession speech with the words "like the Red Sox," uncertainly over his intentions reigned. With no giant black-board to tote up precinct tallies, Timilty backers spent the evening glued to television sets scattered through the Bay State room...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Joe Timilty Concedes, Won't Say It Ain't So | 11/5/1975 | See Source »

...last Monday's meeting of Social Sciences 15, a course taught by Herrnstein, SDS members distributed leaflets outlining their complaints against Herrnstein's article. The leaflets' message was augmented by signs taped on the walls and slogans scrawled on the black-board...

Author: By Huntington Potter, | Title: SDS Meeting Discusses Anti-Herrnstein Tactics | 10/6/1971 | See Source »

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