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...Well, if you look at the questions they asked, you can get a sense of where the camps may divide. Of course, as always, you have to look at each question with a grain of salt: The Justices can ask any questions for any reason - strategic, intellectual, et cetera. For example, they may ask a question to redirect the line of debate, or in order to make a point to their colleagues...
Entering the day, the Crimson, took this opening tournament with a grain of salt as it is an adjustment meet for it. The freshmen, in particular, need to adjust to collegiate rules. Given that, Harvard's overall strong performance was especially encouraging...
...pessimist, I'm getting ready for an atavistic, pre-petroleum winter. I stand in the yard, knee deep in bright orange maple leaves, and study the grain of the firewood, lazily choosing the straight grains first, the ones without knots or ropy torques that will clutch the blade and hold it, stuck like Excalibur. Splitting wood is a crude, rustic version of diamond cutting. Read the grain right, strike it there, and the wood bifurcates (chunk!) with algebraic cleanness...
...website containing crime statistics for the nations 6,000 colleges and universities, allowing parents and students to compare campus crime between schools. While this website can be a valuable resource, we caution users to take the statistics with a grain of salt...
...trip to Africa in the 1970s, he witnessed the indifference of government officials mandated to improve rural grain storage. "There was no financial reward for them, and I realized company-to-company transactions would be more effective because of a mutual profit incentive," he says...