Word: explained
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Lehman surprised the university when he stepped down last year, citing differences with Cornell’s trustees but declining to explain further. Skorton dismissed those issues at a press conference in Ithaca, N.Y. on Saturday...
...Head TF Megan R. Luke e-mailed students in the course Saturday morning to explain the issue and offer the option to drop the first section, with a deadline of noon yesterday. Seven students had opted to drop Part I from their grade as of late yesterday morning, she wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...
...White House has put prominent retirees, including former Senator Bob Dole, on the road to promote the prescription-drug program. The party is urging candidates to meet with seniors to explain the benefits. Once the program gets under way and "they see how much they actually save, that's going to change some minds," predicts Carl Forti, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. Meanwhile, the G.O.P. can take comfort that even though voters like Carroll and Cunningham are angry with the party, they also concede they aren't sure Democrats can do any better...
...knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1.) flunking out; 2.) doing work; or 3.) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long.This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation and the overpowering assumption.It seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more...
...Senator Joe Biden of Delaware was frustrated enough in an appearance on the Today show Thursday to suggest scrapping hearings altogether. "The system's kind of broken," Biden said. By the time three witnesses from the American Bar Association took the floor to explain why they had given Alito the ABA's highest possible rating, Democrats could already see the writing on the wall. The final blow came when a panel of seven current and former judges from the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals lined up to praise their colleague on the bench. Vermont's Senator Patrick Leahy...