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...voice to the foreground was a major step. However, what the rally needed to do was to take that all-important second step and provide its listeners with a sense of purpose. Otherwise, with no specific plan of action to grab onto, busy Harvard students will let the issues slip into the back corners of their minds. Indeed, many students interviewed after the rally mentioned that it felt unfocused and vague...
Galbraith began his remarks with a slip of the tongue. "Stud Turtle, Studs Terkel, you can see the possibility for error," he said...
Fall is gone; winter comes soon, and a freezing rain. And as your wife fixes a casserole of Spam and pineapples and hashbrowns, you go out to put salt on your sidewalk and slip, your arms waving like windmills, and something in your lower back twists loose, and you never attend the opera again. You spend the rest of your life in search of pain relief and wind up in India, penniless, lying on a mat at the Rama Lama Back Clinic, as the Master's disciple places the sacred banana on your back--ice can do this...
...College Board didn't respond to the incident with a profound apology, or even an indifferent "oops." In fact, this was neither a freak accident, nor a bureaucratic blunder. "It was not a slip-up," asserted Ray Nicosia of ETS. Defending the practice of reusing old exams, he said that ETS has been repeating versions of the SAT for "a great many years." Janice Gams of the College Board, adding to the don't-worry-we-know-what-we're-doing defense, suggested that when students have no knowledge that the exam will be repeated, "seeing the test form...
...prosecutor Brian Kelberg. "How are we going to get a surgeon or a bank president?" The potential jurors for big, sequestered cases tend to be unrepresentative: older, less educated and largely female. Moreover, sequestration is "a far cry from the foolproof system we think it is,'' says Kamisar. "Things slip through the seal"--conjugal visits, for instance...