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...woman rises, charged with driving under the influence, a common enough crime, and the murmuring in the back continues. Lawyers walk to the hallway to confer with clients, the assistant district attorneys shuffle papers. The Commonwealth presents, its case, a fairly straightforward one; she couldn't walk the straight line, she couldn't touch her nose, she admitted she was drunk...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxes your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to called "assistant," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in you bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
Mukesh Prasad '93, who coordinated the student search committee, said yesterday that the search process had been delayed, because both committees and the administration needed to confer...
...group really is all set. But to be ready for anything in these final hours, you should adopt the Boy Scouts' motto: Be Prepared. Have the kleenex handy, keep the lines of communication open and stay calm. And then, the only thing you can do is wait. --Molly B. Confer...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders...