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...miles is in itself a revealing number, obviously cooked up by the ETS legal departments with some impressive foul-ups in mind. Of course, it is absurd to expect someone in Boston to write an important test at 9 a.m. in Amherst. (ETS will not, needless to say, give you a free 50 points for getting up at 5 a.m., or, even more needless to say, pay for your hotel or train fare...
Thirty scholars, mostly from the humanities, are participating in the group. "This organization is designed to end needless polemics," said Gates, the only member from Harvard...
...Needless to say, these people belong at home making afghans for their grandchildren and not out hiring hit-men to kill their son-in-laws or their daughters' lovers. Snuffing out an enemy should remain the domain of organized crime. It is no world for the average American to enter...
After Bernhard Goetz gunned down five Black youths in a New York City subway, law officers went on a major re-education campaign against vigilante justice. And it generally worked. We can do the same to stop this new type of needless murder...
...crowd gathered at the FDO, I could tell that my application was less an application and more a ticket to an academic lottery. Professors, given only a few days themselves to choose 8 students from among a pool occasionally ranging into the hundreds, scramble to interview those interested. Needless to say, they often end up picking winners...