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...drunken malfeasance, thus effecting a double punishment—one at the university level, the other in the form of parental wrath. The threat of this retribution has caused many from Boston-area colleges to question BPD’s logic: why should someone’s student status confer upon them extra punishment? Young professionals’ parents aren’t notified of their drunken antics, yet they presumably exist and cause distress for their neighbors when parties turn wild...
Despite the higher incidence of carriage among those children who attended day-care facilities, Huang said she believes childcare facilities still confer a very great benefit to children...
...SHOULD THE E.U. BE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE COUNTRIES LIKE UKRAINE AND BELARUS? I am ready to confer membership to Turkey, to Kazakhstan, to Morocco, and to everyone. The more countries, the better. HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE U.S.?E.U RELATIONS NOW? I really don't think the antagonism between Europe and the U.S. was as great as the headlines in some of your publications would suggest. We are moving in a positive direction...
...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 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 bluebook...
...past year loudly decrying the political process on the grounds that any vote would be tainted if it were conducted during the U.S.-led occupation. The A.M.S. seemed to soften its stance last month when Abdul Salam al-Qubaisi, a high-ranking cleric, told TIME the group would confer its blessings on some candidates. "We will not be candidates, but we will support the election," he said. "We will support people with the right qualifications"--meaning those not associated with the U.S.-backed interim government. Al-Qubaisi was even cautiously optimistic that the A.M.S. would be able to persuade some...