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Mr. Oppenheimer (class of '92) benefited greatly from his debate coach, Curt Robison, a philosophy teacher who harnessed the smart aleck's glibness and taught him how to win debates by focusing on broad ideas and ethical concepts.
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Ok, one more on LHC, from the Wash Post: A smart aleck's take on the big smashing idea AP: Wire service's enterprise testing finds more tap water with traces of presciption drugs The AP deserves a salute for keeping its eye on the nation's water quality, in particular the inevitable - and inevitably worrying - appearance of pharmaceutical drugs in water that we drink, in which we bathe, and that runs off our lawns and into the sewage plants or nearby streams.
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Some mighty slick aleck's helped hisself to them dollars, an 'I don't know who -- nor does anybody else,' cep 'him who paid' em. "
The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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