Word: explanationsent
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This year, however, we're forced to look for other explanations. The numbers are no longer infallible. We're inclined to support David Merkowitz, spokesperson for the American Council on Education, who told the Globe that "the rankings are kind of artificial."
There are explanations of varying degrees of persuasiveness. They come in flavors psychological, objective and political.
As much as Americans desire instant gratification, officials handling the investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 see no reason to satisfy that craving. Confirming last week the discovery of microscopic traces of PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, on a piece of the plane's midsection, investigators moved one step...
These issues, and many others, are unfortunately whirled about in the indiscriminate sludge of Neruda's free-associated reminiscences. To understand the doctor's treatment of Gene Kenny, readers must first endure an almost novel-length account of Neruda's exotic childhood--Spanish-Cuban father, Jewish mother--and his later...
LESSON NO. 3: SELECTIVE LEAKING CAN BACKFIRE. By holding back key information, Republicans tried to capitalize on the Administration's utterly confusing explanations about who hired Livingstone. (The White House pinned the deed on the late Vince Foster, for example, when Livingstone himself testified that he'd never met Foster...