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With free scoops of ice cream in the sunny afternoon outside the courtyard of the Center for European Studies (CES), about 100 students who will be studying or working in Europe this summer abandoned their exam preparation for two hours on Monday to meet informally and discuss their coming summer activities—the first event of its kind to be hosted...
...long run the expert in the use of 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...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...club does very few things to officially stamp its approval on the issue,” Barro said. “There are lots of things in the party platform that people don’t necessarily agree with and the people in the club never discuss...
Quietly, Thorpe and her county allies--commissioners Rojo de Steffey, Serena Cruz, Lisa Naito and chair Diane Linn, along with a trusted staff member from each office--began discussing marriage. Whenever the commissioners came to meetings on the issue, they were careful to show up alone or in pairs to avoid triggering a state public-meetings law that applies when a quorum of elected officials (in this case, three of five) gather to discuss government affairs. To be sure, the commissioners may routinely follow the same practice, but the deliberate dodging of the public-meetings law on such a politically...