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...Foregone Conclusion Award: to Charles V. Willie's "Af-Am 193w: Contribution of Black Colleges to Higher Education in the United States." Willie also finished dead last in the highly contested Vaguest Course Title category (a.k.a. the Social Studies Prize...
...essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
...with the doors shut. I have no idea how long either of them had been there, or where they had been before that, or when they were planning on leaving. Because we were in the habit of retreating into our bedrooms and closing the doors, I only had the vaguest idea of when my roommates were home and when they were not. This wasn't because we weren't friends or because we didn't do things together. But we didn't go around keeping tabs on each other either...
...what's happening on campus. But the groups detailed in the brochure actually have very little to do with the OFA. Like the cover photograph of an ancient bas relief from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the organizations included in "Practice and Performance" have only the vaguest correlation to the OFA. They are ordinarily self-sufficient entities which would not have existed except for student initiative and would just as easily pass from the scene without it. Take, for example, the Radcliffe Choral Society which rehearses in Paine and Lowell Halls and Sanders Theatre. In order to conduct...
...away with welfare as we knew it by moving recipients to jobs. Indeed, he considers it vital to arrest the long slide of the ghetto poor into dependence and pathology. But Wilson asks a simple question for which Clinton and the Republicans have so far provided only the vaguest of answers: Where are these jobs going to come from? He raised the question again in a memorandum that he faxed to Clinton last week, but has so far received no reply...