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...impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more.Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: Imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...example, everyone thought 'oh, it's just going to become dated.' And I think what happens is that it just becomes a period piece or a time capsule. I look at the books that I really enjoyed the most - like Kurt Vonnegut for example, or Joan Didion - you can tell, almost in some cases to the hour, the minute, when they were writing. I never put stuff in gratuitously. I think that's a misconception. Like how many can I squeeze in. Things like the page with the contents of Doritos or the pages of the numbers, to me that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Google God? | 5/16/2006 | See Source »

...work will help guide international audiences through a new era of Aboriginal art at the Mus?e du quai Branly in Paris. Across 250 sq m of ceiling, her painted mural will transform a curatorial library into an Arnhem Land night, luminous with a different kind of knowledge. "The stars tell stories to Yolngu people," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Parisian Romance | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...Love is a many-splendored thing. Day 3 and my husband has a new refrain: "If you really loved me, you'd take me away from this." Jeans avers that guests often feel "a little low on the third day. I tell them the pain will be forgotten by Saturday when they will look fabulous and feel full of energy. It's tough love, really." As it happens, I'm getting into the swing after shaking off a caffeine-withdrawal headache. Only one person in the retreat's four-year history has ever quit. And the yoga is wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Retreat | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...soon to tell whether those measures will deter the hiring of illegals--penalties added during a 1986 reform are rarely enforced. But in this election year, that may not be what matters most. Tough talk from Congress or the President may be enough to send a key message: We're working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Tough at the Border | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

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