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  3. From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
  4. Newsgroups: misc.education,sci.astro,sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.math,sci.physics
  5. Subject: Re: Of Lawyers, Doctors and Profs...
  6. Message-ID: <11386@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
  7. Date: 20 Nov 92 19:08:54 GMT
  8. References: <lgl5mfINNakj@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov18.202238.13754@news.clarkson.edu> <1992Nov20.090140.18847@ra.msstate.edu>
  9. Sender: news@sun13.scri.fsu.edu
  10. Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
  11. Followup-To: misc.education
  12. Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
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  15. In article <1992Nov20.090140.18847@ra.msstate.edu> wkl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Wing-Keong Loke                                               the consummate chronic prevaricator) writes:
  16. >In article <1992Nov18.202238.13754@news.clarkson.edu> rajat@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Rajat Kapoor) writes:
  17. >> 
  18. >>Interestingly, all the three have an easy way out if they lose :
  19. >>
  20. >>Lawyers:  " It was a weak case" 
  21. >>Doctors:  " The patient would have died anyway " 
  22. >>Profs  :  " The student was hopeless" 
  23.  
  24. >    I think the last case is cited quite frequently, no?
  25.  
  26. Often in reference to students who become lawyers after failing to 
  27. become doctors. 
  28.                            ;-)
  29.  
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  31. J. A. Carr                                    |  "The New Frontier of which I  
  32. jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu                           |  speak is not a set of promises
  33. Florida State University  B-186               |  -- it is a set of challenges."
  34. Supercomputer Computations Research Institute |   John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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