9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for August 11, 2013

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Dr. burber? Woman: the leopard poises.... Man: from a student's perspective, all that you just stated was your opinion-educated conjecture, hypothesis, a guess. What makes your opinion any more substantial than my opinion or anybody else's opinion? woman: Because my opinion will be on your exam, it will be objectively graded-by which I mean, ruthlessly-it will count for 60 percent of your total grade and it will spell your doom. man: Um...could you repeat your opinion, just so we can write it down? Woman: I'll intone it slowly.