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...likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

...likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...reap high profits and complain that if they had to employ legal workers they would go out of business. That is modern slavery, no matter how you cut it, and the only way to stop it is to close the borders, fine those who hire illegal immigrants and then ferret out the illegals who are in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration Divides the Nation | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

...taking time off, the town will be getting a new schoolmarm. At worst, I thought maybe I'd discover that Weird Al Yankovic was poking at them again, planning something like Let's Get It Amish in Here. I quickly learned that information is not so easy to ferret out from the Amish, since it turns out they don't have e-mail. Or phones in their homes. Or any interest in talking to the media. They still feel pretty screwed over by that Witness movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next ... With The Amish | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

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