Word: tellingly
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Everybody who attends a 9 a.m. class, or teaches one, is familiar with the tell-tale clatter as one of the participants loses the battle to stay awake and keep notepad and pencil from falling off the desk. Much the same situation pertains in 10 a.m. classes too. For the exhausted victim, catching up afterwards by reviewing material on the course website or borrowing someone else's notes means a double investment of time. Starting the lecture schedule later in the morning would not solve anything; it would just prolong the day at the other end, unless Harvard drastically reduced...
...remember going to Texas in 1988 with the Dukakis campaign and hearing the state's highway commissioner and designated Democratic wit, Jim Hightower, tell a crowd, "When ignorance goes to $25 a barrel, I want the drilling rights on George Bush's head...
...they crossed the line. U.S. troops took an Albanian man suspected of wrongdoing to a field outside of town, where they measured his height. The G.I.'s "proceeded to dig a grave in front of the Albanian," and then declared "that if he did not tell him what he wanted to know that they were going to shoot him, and bury him, and that no one would ever know," an unidentified soldier said...
...into a room and held it to the back of the head of a suspect. "Do you want to die?" he asked. Serafini told investigators he emptied his weapon before he "walked up to the individual and put my weapon to the base of his skull and asked him, `Tell me what you know.' As soon as I said that I realized that I had made a mistake...
Most women who are looking for Mr. Perfect are about 1 million light-years away from being perfect themselves. Not that you could ever tell that to them--or their mothers. RON STELTER Hackensack...