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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 feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read...
...unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...promise you, you're really not missing anything by not attending the inaugural. I've been to two of them, and unless you've given the incoming president more than a $100,000 you'll be sitting so far away that you'll see George W.'s lips move before you hear his words. The balls are deeply tedious. You stand around thinking, Gee, that other ball we decided not to go to has got to be a lot more fun than this one. And don't even think about going to more than one: gridlock and the Secret Service...
...Turner. Putin generally believes all Russians are serfs to the Kremlin, but Turner is not Russian. If he invested in NTV, it would be a very good gesture of solidarity with what is left of freedom of speech in Russia. But of course nobody will help the Russians unless the Russians help themselves...
...Lividoti disagrees. Unless CRLS continues to offer classes in at least five technical areas, the state will not offer certification, he says...