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...went online and started looking at the course catalogs, and found lots of classes that would dovetail on what I write about,” Grimes said. “The idea of actually spending time talking to experts and taking classes in these things was extremely appealing...
...that the U.S., the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has both the money and the technology to reduce harmful emissions but lacks the political will to do so? It would be better for the American people to start planting trees in their backyards and write to their Representatives in Washington to tell President Bush to support the Kyoto Protocol. Jim Victa Hipolito Kawit, the Philippines Give Greenspan a Break Your story about the rocky economy and tough criticism faced by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan was titled "Greenspan's Deficits" [May 2]. That's unfair and misleading...
...actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything at all. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
...when the U.S. tax code began to require Social Security numbers for listed dependents, seven million American children “disappeared.” Who knew that such fun and interesting questions could be solved through incredibly difficult multiple regressions? Or, for that matter, that an economist could write an easy-to-read book with such mass appeal...