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...would leave Lebanon and that "a number of their Arab allies are urging them to stick with their word and to leave when all forces are prepared to leave." Earlier Reagan had told reporters at a White House photo session that "the opportunity shouldn't be allowed to slip away. The risks, if the withdrawal fails, are far greater than the risks of completing the withdrawal...
...looks nice on your record). Get set! The pressure is on in college. Nothing less than an A will do for all pre-med courses. Choose a major in one of the sciences and fill out the rest of the schedule with "Mickey Mouse" subjects, lest your cumulative average slip below Aminus. Go! You are in. At med school you will spend 30 to 40 hours a week at lectures, and as many more studying. But do not plan on actually grasping the material; there is no time to do more than memorize for exams. And do not plan...
...mingled amusement and relief of the audience. Shows like Candid Camera tried to catch unwitting people in mortifying circumstances, while The Newlywed Game prodded one spouse to air the other's dirty laundry. Most of the clips on Life's Most Embarrassing Moments were outtakes and slip-ups from TV shows such as Three's Company and Soap. Although the "embarrassing moments" were meant to be backstage revelations, somehow more "real" than the smooth, neatly edited programming they disrupted, they seemed instead to be unabashedly calculated...
...paragraphing, which appears to have been done by a food professor rather than a word professor, is a symptom of the utter absence of any organizing ideas beyond the examples themselves: Presentation here sadly mirrors preconception, both of them so careless as to be virtually absent. This might slip by with a D-, if the "author" has had bad lighting and good luck working...
...reveals the fact that the author invested in critical research more than he/she could spare from critical thinking. Especially in the first pages, the groundwork is laid (with obvious effort and some skill) for a major edifice that the paper never completes or inhabits. Gradually the paper begins to slip away from coherence as it tries to keep hold of lots of plays and critics, and so while it provides a suggestive survey of references to astronomy in Shakespeare, it never has time to pull them together into any sharp, integral analysis. This would probably get a B for effort...