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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. According to Oppenheimer’s paper, almost two thirds of the Princeton students polled admitted to using a thesaurus when writing an essay “to give the impression that the content is more valid or intelligent.” Harvard students, too, confess an attachment to their thesauri—in moderation. “If you use a thesaurus, it’s obviously going to make you look like an idiot if you don’t know the meaning of the words,” said Shawn J. Hilgendorf...

Author: By Carolyn F. Gaebler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bigger Isn't Always Better | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...Computers and Computing” is the QR that caters to those with a mind to get rich quick. The class is curved to high heaven, but watch out for the slide back down. This is a class people FAIL; Professor William Bossert feels compelled to confess this on the first day. Oh sure, you’re supposed to learn how to write a computer game (as a final project, after a series of impossible programming problem sets). But at 9 a.m., you won’t be learning a damn thing.You can postpone uncertainty itself and wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quantitative Reasoning | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...confess I always think Pat Buchanan seems to take things so seriously. What do you do for a laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Pat Buchanan | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...turns out that John Mark Karr didn't kill JonBenet Ramsey, he won't be the first to confess voluntarily to a crime he didn't commit. The motivation for these phony admissions, says criminologist Jim Fisher, author of Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, can be "mental illness or extreme guilt over another crime, or they're just yearning for the attention a big case brings, the chance to be in the history books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telling Untruths | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...first time I metRal Castro, in 1972, I confess that I did not pay any attention to him at all. I was visiting revolutionary Cuba with a group of young "internationalists"; I was green and wanted to change the world. Fidel was the one that I wanted to see. First I met Vilma Espn, who had joined the revolution before marrying Ral. That she was from a well-to-do family and had thrown away everything for the cause made her a dashing character in my eyes. She was then and remains today head of Cuba's Women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fidel's Brother: The Raul I Know | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

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