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...have learned a great deal about how many kinds of executive and legislative decisions are made and that will inform the way that I think about and discuss those issues,” Meltzer wrote...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Over 30 professors and administrators from across the University gathered at the Charles Hotel on Wednesday in a closed meeting to discuss whether Harvard should sign a deal with Google Books, which would grant the web giant permission to scan and digitize the University’s materials and make them publicly accessible...
Public hearings to discuss the fiscal year 2011 city budget will begin today and continue throughout the month...