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...Dakotah Lee Sanford, a sixth-grader at the Tobin School who participated in the first-year program last year, is enrolled in the after school class for returning students...
...fluffy one. Despite the narrator’s professed desire to better understand himself, his world, and the people who populate it, Quick barely manages to flesh out the main character, let alone the secondary ones. Quick endows Pat with the voice and writing style of a seventh grader. Pat expresses himself in run-on sentences, and often uses grammatical constructions that one might find in a poorly written grade-school report. One example of this can be found in Pat’s discussion of “The Bell Jar:” “this book...
Palin, Sarah •absurd claim that as a second grader in a tiny town in Alaska she was aware of the "Senate speeches" of a just-elected senator from Delaware is made by •"choice" to be gay was made by unnamed lesbian friend of •debate audience is winked at by •ignorance of all non-Roe V. Wade Supreme Court cases is displayed by •increase in powers of vice president is desired by •"maverick" is repeatedly uttered in debate by •"nucular" is repeatedly uttered in debate by •removal of from Republican ticket is urged...
Biehl wrote that her concerned eighth-grader asked, "We don't have any stocks, do we, Mom?" She said she soft-pedaled any concerns about his college fund to stop the panic. Biehl, whose parents filed for bankruptcy when she herself was in college, wrote: "I briefly explained that it's all cyclical." Still, on the Monday of the vote and subsequent market crash, Biehl took a look at her 401(k) and discovered she had lost $6,300. "But then I thought, I have still doubled my money since I first started investing and - as I wrote...
...reasons. The people who run campaigns know you only have so much time to think about this stuff, so they want to make it easy for you. They translate complex economic projections into aphorisms. They turn tax plans that must be read with lawyers' help into sentences a third-grader can understand. The details? Bah. That's politically foolish, even if voters claim that's what they really want to hear about...