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Regardless of what MIT does, Reed said Florida will move ahead on a with its plans to build or renovate a laboratory, hire scientists and confer with researchers who will be using the facility...
...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...
...climax comes at the opinion-writing stage. Although the Justices confer alone and vote in complete secrecy, the clerks listen to their bosses' instructions, often see their private notes and write the preliminary drafts of the opinions. The custom of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, recalls University of Michigan law professor Kent Syverud, is to give her clerks "a firm outline" of her opinion, then take the clerks' ensuing draft -- together with all the relevant research -- and "edit the hell...
...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 bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders...
...that is a far cry from the armored units that had been fighting in Cambodia. Even with a lingering Vietnamese presence, the Hun Sen government is basically on its own at last. Although the government's international isolation continues -- only the Soviet Union, its allies and India confer full recognition -- Hun Sen's record so far is pretty good. On the battlefield, government troops have rolled back most of the border-area gains made by rebel forces earlier this year. And despite rising public anger at official corruption, political and economic reforms on the Vietnamese model have had a dramatically...