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...record. School officials had little else to judge her by. Twenty-eight years later, the situation is different. They know she's good at her job. She has demonstrated real merit. Why should her employer care about the paper stuff? But, of course, they did care, and she did lie. And she maintained the lie for 28 years until she was outed by anonymous sources. And this wasn't just any lie. It was a lie in the very area in which Jones' job requires her to expect the truth. The dean of admissions, of all people at a university...
...addressing this language barrier is why most interdisciplinary initiatives have failed except in joining concentrations that lie within the same tradition area. The combination of history and literature or chemistry and physics are offered as concentrations but nothing joins fields like mathematics and English or history and economics...
Even Samberg’s toothy smile turned sour at the mention of Cambridge’s only breakfast-table daily. Turns out Lonely Island’s loyalties lie with a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...then we all go out for ice cream because I have coupons. First thing you notice about a guy/girl: Class, alignment, and guild affiliation. Your best pick-up line: “You dropped your pen. Yes, you did. Here it is.” Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Last summer, I told my 8-9 yr old campers a 30-minute bedtime story about how I had had a brain aneurysm and now sometimes I see people without mouths, bleeding from the eyes and screaming. Something you’ve always wanted...
...NEIL SHEEHAN, PULITZER PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR OF A BRIGHT SHINING LIE, WHICH DETAILS AMERICA'S FAILURES IN VIETNAM