Word: validator
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...glad to hear those words, but I didn't actually believe them. They smacked to me of academic relativism, the sort of thing where any interpretation is valid, where the notion of "truth" is scoffed at, where a skillful (or lazy) reader can manipulate (or misinterpret) an argument, turn it on its head and still be celebrated as a conquering hero...
Ocon first received custody of Bailey in a highly-publicized court case in which family law commissioner John Chemeleski ruled that Ocon could return to Harvard--where a full scholarship offer was still valid--accompanied by Bailey...
...play optimist and claim it's just a phase. It's not that grapes are the only thing we can get worked up about; it's that we are temporarily living in a bubble. I have no connection with my current surroundings, and for the moment it's valid to continue a long-distance voting relationship even though it's hard to care with so many miles between. But it can't stay this...
...Students wanted more flexibility," Mayer said, noting that upperclass students who had a number of classes during the lunch hour had difficulty finding time to rush back to their houses. "It was a valid complaint and something we felt we could accommodate," he said...
...official Republican rationale for the wholesale release is that it would all be leaked anyway. It's a valid concern. But clearly, the sight of the President squirming under the hot lights -- and splitting some extemely fine legal hairs -- is expected to appeal to the horse sense of ordinary Americans, who know a lie when they see and hear one, no matter what David Kendall says. The supporting documents, meanwhile, will be aimed more at the groin. Much of material Starr left out of his report is, as Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah described it, "stuff that makes me blush...