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...minus 3 weeks. Like a spring thaw, writing will become revising, though the process will be just as draining. You will feel ecstatic about strange things, like finding an errant quote or cutting out the split infinitives. You also will find yourself talking about the thesis like it was super-interesting to others, from section to bars to the checker in the dining hall. Please feel free to restrain yourself. Please...
...minus 2 days. Step away from the keyboard. Do it. I'm serious. Rely on your hard work, your measured pace and your trusty proofreaders to help perfect your masterpiece. Buy a ream of special paper and set aside a day, about a hundred dollars and all your remaining patience, whether you are printing it yourself or dropping off your baby at the all-night whirling dervish of copies. Prevent yourself from looking too close; of course you will find mistakes, but what's to say that an errant mouse click won't create more while...
...medical experiences similar to the vice president's, I have a wary and complex attitude toward the fact that the most important man in Washington, aside from Bush, has been playing peekaboo for so long with his own mortality. When I contemplate Cheney's situation, I see my own (minus power, limousines and Secret Service...
...heard about its new SAT-optional stance. She submitted an early-decision application and received a thick acceptance letter in January. Says Lis: "It just appealed to me that they wanted to look at me as a person, the whole package." So she let them see it all - minus her SATs...
...white guilt: That is his judgment, and it is to be accepted. Also and by implication, there is no grade inflation about which we should be concerned. The facts that every fourth grade at Harvard is a straight A, and that every other grade is an A or A minus, give him no pause...