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While most students expect interviews for summer jobs to be challenging, few have ever had grammar books shoved in their faces...

Author: By Eric S. Barr, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Interviews Strain Summer Proctors | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...size. Christ, it doesnit get any more facile that that. Of course, there is a fine line between what is sincere and what is sentimental. Youill find that, in order to stay on the left side of that line, weive eschewed such journalistic conventions as fact-checking and grammar...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Kirsten G. Studlien, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: I am the Very Model | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...Maumort cut his teeth on algebra, on ideas of scientific progress, on the rules of Greek grammar. In his efforts to account for the events of his life, he spends long passages analyzing the people who were important to him, sounding their virtues and explicating their faults, with deliberately objective scrutiny. He tries to account for every failing, to explore the plausibility of every belief, and his memoirs read almost as a series of complete and independent episodes. Even when he describes the Nazi officials that use his home as a barracks for their squadron, he tries to transcend...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maumort Mounts the Moral Barricade | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...treatment of comedy writers coming out of Harvard was fundamentally flawed. It would seem that most of your arguments were simply begging the question. Your attempt to emulate Balzac reveals only the extent of your utter boobery. It's an issue of semantics vis a vis Chomsky's Universal Grammar, really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: From Our BULGING Mail Bags | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

Bottom line: no matter how official an e-mail looks, be wary. Check the company's website--many firms like Microsoft and Honda debunk myths on their home pages. Personally, I take note of spelling and grammar in suspect mail. Hoax authors do not appear to be the biggest fans of dictionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Be E-Hoaxed | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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