...hand it right back to us and buy their education. like their pastrami. elsewhere Samuel Johnson said. "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight. it concentrates his mind wondertully." Our equivalent hanging dealing with students and their families as customers — has...

...Johnson produced his famous quip: "Why should you think so? Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows that he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." In 1783 Johnson made his final comment on Dodd's case: "I was very willing to have him pardoned, that...

...Exciting? In what sense? SHEPPARD: As Samuel Johnson said, speaking of a prisoner condemned to die, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." I imagine the same thing applies to you with regard to Hubert: since he had declared he was going to...

...not the art of getting drunk. - What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. - Depend upon it , sir — when a man knows he is to...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Q: Why, sir, in your dictionary, do you define 'pastern' as the 'knee of a horse? A: Ignorance, madam,...

...and laid-back, and pleasant to deal with. But now he was working an average of eighteen hours a day. Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Granted, Yuri Radamacher had more than a fortnight at his disposal. But how much more, remained to...

...intensity and discipline he had developed as a man under a death sentence. As Samuel Johnson once said, "Depend upon it, sir — when a man knows he is to...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Whether or not we have received bad news from the doctor, we should write as if our lives depend on...

...could be sued personally. This had an effect similar to that described by Dr. Samuel Johnson, who said, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Meanwhile the judges on the bench of the Tenth Circuit in Denver, after reconsidering the Adarand case,...

...numbers has had a surprising impact on heirs and benefactors. As Samuel Johnson once wrote: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."20 Not that a hanging is in store, but the reality of planned responsibility (as a steward...

...of success or starvation, kill or die, would have a remarkably beneficial effect on one's abilities. 'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,' was the opinion of Dr. Johnson. If the presence of these expectant...

...spend some time planning my written answers. Q Introduction Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows that he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully (Dr Samuel Johnson). Most students dislike exams yet universities persist with the timehonoured end-of-unit...