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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. Best not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
Rafsanjani wants to rescue the economy by returning the nationalized industries to private hands and attracting foreign investment and technology. His government has also initiated talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in hopes of eventually obtaining loans. Those steps, however, depart from the revolution's commitment to reject outside influence (the Islamic republic's constitution explicitly forbids foreign investment), and his adversaries in the Majlis will not go along...
...critics point out that high unemployment rates and the overall economic gloom which has descended over Massachusetts are causing voters in recent weeks to reject overrides by overwhelming margins...
...issue is simple. The sit-ins keep him and other administrators from doing their jobs. He sees no compelling reason to allow students to disrupt the operations of the Law School by allowing them to violate the University rules they had agreed to follow. The students' liberal sympathizers may reject this reasoning on the grounds that the students are making a political statement that should not be suppressed. But would this position hold if the activists were conservative students disrupting the ability of University Health Services to provide abortion counseling? What if the Association Against Learning in the Absence...
...vote and the majority of his peers chose not to adopt his suggestion. In his editorial, Cloud misrepresents the reasons given for the loss of his motion. Although it is true that some students mentioned time constraints, the primary stated reason why the majority chose to reject Cloud's motion was because they were satisfied that the process was fair and that the candidates were all of acceptable quality...