That said, I think my mother's essay begs the question: What kind of mother was Erica Jong?

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But in fact, his essay answers a different question: why it is that conservative voters remain woefully unprepared to tackle the fiscal challenges ahead.

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It has always been known that some candidates get extensive editing assistance or may have presented the work of others as their own, but this is often revealed in the interview when a candidate is asked to clarify or elaborate on a response from a short answer question or essay.

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In the nineteen-sixties, the sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote a famous essay on scientific discovery in which he raised the question of what the existence of multiples tells us about genius.

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" Adapted from an essay that she wrote for www.edge.org, in response to the website's 2012 annual question: "What is your favorite deep, elegant or beautiful explanation?

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