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Overheard in New York

By alex | Published: 6/5/2005
Overheard in New York: Oh my god, I just totally bombed my final. But it’s not fair. It’s not my fault I got stuck in a class with all smart people. My grade’s totally going to skyrocket downwards.
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Evil authorship

By alex | Published: 6/3/2005
“Think no evil, do no evil, hear no evil, and you will never write a best-selling novel.” – Sister Esther Boor of the Convent of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Mankato, Minnesota.
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Insidious encroachment by men of zeal

By alex | Published: 4/25/2005
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. – Louis D. […]
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Square Peg

By alex | Published: 2/5/2005
Scene: departmental faculty meeting. “Yeah, what’s next? We’re going to start research ‘wearable computing’ or something?” Everyone laughs… except one person…
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