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...We employed a curve in which the average grade was a B+, and only a tiny number of students received grades below a C. I told the class this, but it had no effect on the students’ mood....
...In a time when journalism, marketing and sloganising have sucked the life out of language – when everything is a crisis or a tragedy, when multinational corporations offer to salvage our marriages and salve...
...Bed sheets were cheap; I’d buy a bunch of them. I’d go to the hardware store and buy house paint. You’d paint three or four layers on the bed sheets so they got really hard....
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