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...those are dirty words. The article caught the eye of a VNN reader identified only as “Arch.” He wrote to VNN’s editor, bemoaning Carey’s fate and using her and other liberal home-schooled students as a prime reason for why home schooling should be abolished. His argument was that the children of these families receive “no diversity training or social conditioning to the Jew’s [sic] world order” at home, and so when they go to college, just aren?...
...murals inside Widener Library (Sargent), of the reason the third, poignant condition Harry’s mother laid down for the construction of the library (all students must take a swim test to graduate) has been cancelled (the Disabilities Act). This information is only being shared in case the reader, too, is subjected to a terrorizing pop quiz while running to class. Before college, none of us ever believed they had a particularly trustworthy face, but one starts to think it might be the case...
...with a smile. The latter, we learn, is among 30% of the U.S. population who expose their canine teeth when they smile (67% form a toothless crescent shape); while women, unlike men, whose bodies secrete high levels of testosterone, are more likely to laugh. By book's end, the reader has become familiar with the nasolabial fold (the curving lines which form between the cheeks and upper lip) and the inner-workings of the smile, whose principal puppet master is the cranial nerve number...
...Some readers thought the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas should begin at the top. "Corporate executives should ship their own jobs abroad," wrote a Vermonter. "The savings would be much greater than a mere computer programmer's salary." A Utah reader warned that "the big shots don't realize it, but their own jobs are in jeopardy and will be leaving soon." And a New Yorker saw a deficit-reduction bonanza: "Americans could save billions if we outsourced our Federal Government! Certainly there must be citizens of India who would be glad to act as our legislators for a fraction...
...above all else and above most other people, an excellent craftsman at communicating many ideas simply,” Sahin says. “Simple in this case means reducible to concepts that are digested by an interested and intellectual but not necessarily expert listener or reader...