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December 01, 2003

Monday Morning Levity

One of StumpJumper's longtime favorite authors has a fun article on TownHall today. John Leo celebrates and notes some of 2003's "notable victims."

· A high school student in Trento, Italy, faced with the prospect of having to repeat junior year because she failed math, hired a lawyer who argued that she was suffering from "irreversible psychological pathology," or math phobia. A regional court ruled that the condition made it impossible for her to study or master math and allowed the school to move her directly into senior year.

There's more. It's great. Go read.

Posted by zombyboy at December 1, 2003 08:01 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Best damn reason to read US News every week. Come to think of it, he's the main reason that I've been subscribing for (I can't even remember how many) years.

Posted by: StumpJumper at December 1, 2003 11:32 AM

As far as I'm concerned, he's the only consistently good thing about the magazine.

Posted by: zombyboy at December 1, 2003 11:34 AM

Forget about Leo. Where was that lawyer when I was in high school?

Posted by: Patrick at December 1, 2003 03:14 PM

No joke--my GPA would've been quite a bit higher.

Posted by: zombyboy at December 1, 2003 03:15 PM