Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
Another North memo, prepared for the President last January, also outlined the rationale for beginning direct U.S. arms shipments to Iran. Reagan evidently did not read the three-page document. Instead, Poindexter apparently gave him an oral briefing and then signed Reagan's initials at the bottom. The White House was at pains to point to the paper's justification of weapons deliveries as a way of fostering ties to Iran's moderate elements. Yet the Senate report says that Casey had devised this line of reasoning to cloud the true arms-for-hostages nature of the arrangement. The document...
...been tailed and questioned there, as had those who associated with him. "After I left one time," he recalls, "the authorities went to one of my Czech friends and demanded to know what Roth was up to, what does he want here. My friend answered, 'Haven't you read his books? He comes for the girls...