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...According to Dumit, the class will be lecture and discussion-based. He says there will be a series of projects in lieu of papers or exams. There will be no final exam but rather a web-based project...
...with the school district entitles her to only 13 sick days a year, so far she has received 72 anonymously donated days that have allowed her to maintain her salary. Common among unionized governmental agencies, sick banks and similar donation policies (some employers allow people to donate cash in lieu of vacation or sick leave) have grown significantly since they started about 15 years...
...foolish system that led to Harvard's denial to the tournament last year in lieu of Minnesota and Dartmouth. Yes, selection committees are that blind, and yes, they could do it again...
...provision in Massachusetts State Law allows judges to place defendants on unsupervised probation in lieu of other punishment. As part of the agreement, Hunt was not found guilty of any of the four charges against...
Houellebecq further evades adequate characterizations of the two men by assigning them pat philosophical summaries of everything from Kant to Huxley in lieu of giving them actual thoughts. It is not rare that one encounters such grand generalities as, "He was surprised at how miserable he felt. Far removed from Christian notions of grace and redemption, unfamiliar with the concepts of freedom and compassion, Michel's worldview had grown pitiless and mechanical." Such a statement flounders in the context of a work of fiction, and unfortunately is not redeemed by any breathtaking originality...