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...Arts and Sciences has not yet seen fit to add courses in highway safety to its curriculum. Rather, the occasion is a morning section of English E, "English as a Foreign Language," Harvard's answer to the needs of many foreign students and faculty members seeking to hone their oral and written skills in the English language...
Harvard offers four sections of English E throughout the year, each section concentrating on a specific area of English usage. The section discussing traffic laws is the oral section, and the focus is on the development of fluency in spoken English. Other sections stress writing and reading...
These were no mere dry technicalities, and the atmosphere in the marbled courtroom was unusually expectant during last week's 2½ hours of oral argument as the Justices peppered the lawyers with more than 100 questions. "I am sorry to detain you," said courtly Justice Lewis Powell Jr. of Virginia as he prolonged the questioning of one attorney. "But this is a very important case." Indeed it was. The Burger Court-with its moderate-to-conservative majority now strengthened by John Paul Stevens-is considering whether to cut back two of the most critical and criticized features...
...make up his mind. He declared that despite all he had heard from her he could not believe Patty's claims that she had been coerced by the S.L.A. "I find," he said, "that the statements made by the defendant after the bank robbery, whether by tape, oral conversation or writing, were made voluntarily." With that, Carter allowed the prosecution to enter everything...
...panic before an exam, he tels them to get a good night's sleep. If they come to him in a panic after an exam, he tells them to go to the instructor and beg for mercy, in which case the instructor wil sometimes relent and give an impromptu oral exam for partical credit...