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  • Somerset Maugham, not much valued today, was a man of letters, and his valedictory statement is to be found in a lovely book called The Summing Up, which, in my youth, I read many times.

    Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

  • Somerset Maugham, not much valued today, was a man of letters, and his valedictory statement is to be found in a lovely book called The Summing Up, which, in my youth, I read many times.

    Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

  • Summing up the White House discussions on war termination, Rick Atkinson found that "Bush and his men concluded that the excessive price of total victory would be indefinite responsibility for rebuilding a hostile nation with no tradition of democracy but with immensely complex internal politics."

    Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II Geoffrey Wawro 2011

  • Summing up what they took to be the consensus in 2005, two American journalists wrote that democracy was not then, and perhaps had never been, “a goal supported by much of the population.”

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Summing up his career and character, Seif seems a sinister opportunist whose own steps and missteps have been fueled by a delusional hubris.

    The Seif Paradox Jason Pack 2011

  • Summing up the White House discussions on war termination, Rick Atkinson found that "Bush and his men concluded that the excessive price of total victory would be indefinite responsibility for rebuilding a hostile nation with no tradition of democracy but with immensely complex internal politics."

    Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II Geoffrey Wawro 2011

  • Summing up we can see that the import of the Darwinian theory of evolution is just unexplainable caprice from top to bottom.

    A New Book 2010

  • Comment Summing up the 1L's in a phrase. [reasonable?]

    Beyond the Underground: 2009

  • Summing up what they took to be the consensus in 2005, two American journalists wrote that democracy was not then, and perhaps had never been, “a goal supported by much of the population.”

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Comment Summing up the 1L's in a phrase. [reasonable?]

    The Weekly Law School Roundup #188 2009

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