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...scholarship offer from Yale graduate school and actually flipped a coin to decide which to do. And the coin came out for literature.LD: I don’t’ believe the Almighty would approve of that. DD: I should have rather thought in retrospect that the person who would have decided by that means should have gone to Divinity school! THC: What do you both do when you’re not writing epic books or teaching? Any zany hobbies?DD: Do we do anything else? I do a lot of windsurfing. LD: When I was young, I played...
...committee. Currently, the Ad Board seems to have a limited menu of punishment options. Offenses as varied as plagiarism and drug abuse are often met with the same response—mandatory time off from the school. This generalized punishment does not reflect the nuances of academic, personal, and other types of problems. Additionally, the size and makeup of the Ad Board is of concern. If we are to see these problems addressed, then the Review Committee’s report needs to make it to the Faculty Council’s Docket Committee within the next several weeks...
...clearly a guy with great leadership qualities. But I met him back in 2003, so I could not suggest that I thought five years from then he would be the 44th president of the United States. My first reaction was, ‘This is the type of person we need running for office...
...letter from the IRS, answer the letter. If you get a phone call, talk to the person on the phone, it's their job to try to resolve the problem. And be more or less honest on your taxes. In fact, I'd err on the side of overpayment...
...subtle, it took a long time to wake up to the fact I'd become a different person. When I first started, there was no way I would call someone on the phone and pretend to be someone else. By the end of it, I was perfectly willing to pick up the phone and pretend to be someone's high school classmate in order to find a taxpayer...