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Just pray you don't have any midterms coming up for a while. You'll need all your spare time to start killing your friends, all over again...
...giving Kasparov even one--to snap one pawn. It was as if, at Gettysburg, General Meade had sent his soldiers out for a bit of apple picking moments before Pickett's charge because he had calculated that they could get back to their positions with a half-second to spare...
...famous essay, "The Talented Tenth" (in which he argued that only by creating a small group of college-educated men could blacks achieve their racial destiny). Though Gates' eloquence and West's astonishing erudition are on display, the book has the feel of something they dashed off in their spare time...
Passing an electrical current through teeth may help dentists detect tiny pores that are the early sign of cavities. The tiny jolt, though it sounds shocking, could spare patients the drill. A special sealant may then halt the decay...
Harvard offers at least two courses that could have given your reviewer a clue: Foreign Cultures 66 "Tiananmen Square"(Prof. Roderick MacFarquhar) and Literature and Arts C-49 "Cultural China in Contemporary Perspectives" (Prof. Leo Lee). Spare the author, and your paper, further embarrassment. --Matei Mihalca Committee on History and East Asian Languages