1. "RE: Adventures in Bureaucracy"
In response to message #0
>By an odd coincidence, that second Camden Conference I >attended as a grad student, way back in February of 2015, had as its >topic the resurgent threat to world stability posed by Russia, which >had seized the Crimea the year before. I even wrote a paper >suggesting that the rest of Ukraine was probably next.
If any department were to, the history department -should-, have a "called it!" bypass where a sufficiently nontrivial prediction would automatically grant you the credential that you're working towards.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea