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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...Officially, Seoul denies any of it happened, but the spies themselves are starting to talk. Ex-spies complain that the government promised them generous rewards, then reneged. The reason: Seoul didn't want to admit it was employing the same dirty tricks as Pyongyang. In March, several hundred ex-spies demanding compensation and official recognition set fire to canisters of liquefied petroleum gas at a busy intersection in Seoul. Angry protesters wearing red headbands held another demonstration in front of the Ministry of National Defense earlier this month, including a man who stripped in front of riot police. Another protester...
...faces life in prison if found guilty of murdering his neighbor Moxley, was transfixed yesterday in court. His eyes darted back and forth between his attorney and Littleton during the question and answer exchanges. Sherman, armed with the videotape, attempted to show that Littleton did in fact admit to the murder. "You did say, you did it?" asked Sherman. "Correct," replied Littleton. Sherman: "Because she (Mary Baker) told you, you did?" "Correct," came the reply. Sherman: "Why would you do that?" Littleton: "I don't know...
Thousands of certified psychologists and therapists have provided theories about why students procrastinate. One of the most popular arguments is that procrastination stems from competitiveness and performance anxiety. This theory seems particularly appropriate for Harvard students, most of whom couldn’t admit to any grade but an A for something that they really put their best effort into. It’s much easier for a student to accept a B or a C on a paper written mere hours before the due date because he, obviously, would have done much better if he had started earlier?...
...joining their ranks or, in the case of young girls, into becoming sex slaves for the soldiers. State infrastructure?power substations, telephone exchanges, village administration offices, bridges, clinics, dams, irrigation and drinking-water projects?and the homes of the "people's enemies" are being leveled. Their aim, the Maoists admit, is to achieve Year Zero, a reference to the Khmer Rouge genocide that was to clear the way for a socialist utopia. "At first, we just wanted to destroy all the government institutions in the village," Junge Kuna village leader Ghopal Phandari, 23, told me deep in rebel territory...