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...like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth.”)Carswell’s further discussion of the O.A. is quite...
...University’s alumni trip to North Korea. Cancellations are standard, according to Sarah J. Friedell, director of media relations for the University’s Alumni Affairs and Development. “We run about 75 trips a year through HAA, and it’s not uncommon to cancel 10 or 12 of those each year,” she said, adding that 11 trips were canceled last year. “In this case, it was a combination of low level of interest and getting some of the details together, things like insurance and ensuring medical...
...often cited by American officials as 20 years of Iranian secret nuclear military program turned out to be, as declared by the IAEA, nothing more than the failure to declare, in a timely manner, some experiments and receiving some material and equipment. Such failures to declare are not uncommon among the NPT members. Remedial steps are envisioned in the Safeguards Agreement to address them, and Iran has done so. Moreover, it was no secret that we were in the European, Russian and Asian markets to purchase enrichment technology in the late '80s and '90s. Therefore, an Iranian secret weapon program...
Ryan’s cynicism about attention disorders and his carefree attitude toward the medications used to treat them are not uncommon. Like many Harvard students who rely on prescription drugs to study, he doesn’t think his habit is any different from standard staples of late-night college cramming, like coffee, energy drinks, or bottles of Diet Coke. On the “black market” (more often a dorm room than a dark alley), Adderall and Ritalin run between 60 to 80 cents per milligram: a euphoric, amphetamine-fueled all-nighter can be purchased...
Self-publishing is fairly uncommon in academia, where published work is an important measure of scholarship and promotion potential...