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...reason people loved Lardner, says Yardley, was because he managed to capture a scene perfectly and the response of his readers was "Yes, that's exactly how it is." Yardley is especially fond of Lardner's ability to "distinguish the subtleties of the way people talked and thought and then to turn them into effective fiction." Because Lardner's books were never best-sellers, the assumption is that he achieved his popularity in the media--for instance, his stories which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker were more successful than such books as "You Know...
...rape cases, restricting, for example, inquiry into the victim's sexual history. But at the same time the law is softening and refining the punishment for rape too. The U.S. Supreme Court in June banned the death penalty for rape. When sentencing rapists, judges now tend to distinguish more and more sharply between varying degrees of brutality and other mitigating circumstances...
Several things distinguish the class of 1981, which arrived in force Friday and Saturday, from its predecessors. Perhaps the most important change is that the entire class is housed in the Yard. In the interest of more normalized relations between the sexes, the Class of '81 boasts the best male-female ratio in the history of the University: 1.87-to-1. Finally, 80 per cent of this year's crop of future leaders have already declared themselves either pre-law or pre-med, according to the Freshman Dean's Office, a statistic that boggles the minds of those who believe...
...billion worldwide revenues last year. Just in case Coke does leave, Indian researchers have come up with a substitute that they hope will be commercially exploited, keep bottling plants running and employment up. But the copied Coke may not work. India's soft-drink fanciers have learned to distinguish between ersatz Coke, which is peddled everywhere on the Indian market, and the Real Thing...
...marked all statements false, welcome back from wherever you have been. If you marked all true, your consciousness has obviously been razed. If you racked up a perfect score, congratulations, but take note: your mind is remarkably attuned to the absurd and the ridiculous. Only such a mind can distinguish between the real and the fantastic among the cases that are increasingly popping up in the crusade against discrimination. Many complaints, as the quiz is intended to make clear, are more farfetched than the most bizarre spoof...