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There are countless breeds of TFs, and many (including mine, of course) manage to rise above their larval roots to become great instructors and, hopefully someday, great professors. But others, through either intense training or abnormal mutation, distort into a subspecies taxonomically known as Bad TF-hood--that is, one to look out for after handing in that paper. Because Bad TF-hood is a highly developed and cultivated state requiring great tenacity to achieve, we at the Institute have developed the following manual, originally published in the New England Journal of Semiotic Hermeneutics of Lower Academic Ecosystems, designed...
Diana could touch and feel; perhaps she believed she could heal. Watching her on television, jolting with tears as she listened to a speech praising and defending her work, one saw signs of an almost delusional inner drama. If power corrupts the self, then absolute fame must surely distort it. Her enthusiasms were crankish, hypochondriac, self-obsessive: aromatherapy, colonic irrigation, the fool's gold of astrology. Diana, I repeat, was "soft" news. She caused sensations by wearing a party dress or by gaining a kilo of weight. She made headlines with every wave of her hand, every twitch...
...federal judge struck down the measure earlier this year because in allowing the President to strike specific items from Congressional bills the measure places too much power in the Executive Branch. Lawyer Alan Morrison told justices Tuesday that a line-item veto would allow the President to distort Congress's intentions simply by picking and choosing what he liked in a spending bill. Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger countered by arguing that Congress also has the power to prevent the President from using the line-item veto on specific proposals, through a simple majority vote. The Justices agreed to hear...
...time Io does that, the gravitational tug of these nearby satellites gives it a twang. On Earth, the gravity of just one moon is sufficient to cause the oceans to rise and fall in great crashing tides. On Io, the gravitational influence of three nearby moons is enough to distort the shape of the world itself, causing it to pulse with a heartbeat-like lub-dub. This rhythmic motion churns up internal heat, which in turn stirs up moonwide volcanoes...
...Leave out the parts the readers skip," Hillerman says is the best advice he's ever received. "You'll have this great description--you distort the plot to get it in. Everyone tends to do it." And finally, he gives advice he assumes the Harvard students won't need: "Be connected...