In one of the classes I sat in on at Stanford, the professor asked the students how they wanted the world to be different when they died.
When the panel ended, I went up to the professor and asked him questions about the dossier.
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The government asked Professor Carol Black and the former head of the British Chambers of Commerce David Frost to consider radical changes to deal with the human and financial cost of sickness absence in the workplace.
Mr. Adolphe told Mr. Ma what the professor had said and asked how he had managed to play the impossible chord.
The student asked his former professor what he should do.
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Our professor asked him to take the stage and speak of the secrets of his success.
W. Bush and now a professor at the University of Rochester, asked me for a short piece on the meaning of baseball to me.
Shocked, he asked a finance professor at the premier business school in Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management, to double-check him.
Kennedy asked Professor Richard Neustadt, an authority on the presidency, to analyse how, this time, two friendly nations could have so misunderstood each other.
To try to shed some light on it, I asked Professor Shalom Schwarz, a social psychologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Professor Glossop said that Mr Davies had asked her to look into how the farmers could be helped.
At Ars Technica, Nate Anderson writes about American University Professor Sean Flynn, who claims that a hotel near the negotiations had been explicitly asked not to allow public interest groups to hold meetings on the day of the negotiations.
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In broad brush strokes: was Professor Longley asked to use all his knowledge and expertise to sift through the evidence and come to a conclusion about whether change was needed in the NHS (with a tacit acceptance on all sides that the answer was pretty much bound to be yes) and suggest what those changes should be?
Why should farmers enjoy special protection? (A silly question, perhaps, in a world where governments routinely stuff rustic pockets with taxpayers' money, but one that needs to be asked.) Another worry, says John Copeland, a professor at the National Centre for Agricultural Law Research and Information in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is that tobacco firms might use these laws to bankrupt their critics.
Professor Avis was recently asked to re-apply for his job as chairman of the PCT.
The others were asked to read about buildings and architecture, says Carrie Keating, a psychology professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.
We asked University of Michigan professor of Middle East history, Juan Cole, when the split took place between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past.
Asked why such a difference of opinion was possible between the colleges and the board, Professor Rubin said: "What we are discussing here is a legal process, and it's a process that depends in the end of the day on evidence, not on opinions".
In response, Professor Richard Dawkins, a high profile atheist, was asked to broadcast an alternative Thought for the Day , but his thought - that "we have been born and we are going to die, but before we die we have time to understand why we were born" - was broadcast in a different slot on the programme.
Professor Shiller, famous economist and one of the developers of the widely followed Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, asked the financial industry to take advantage of the historic opportunity created by the global financial crisis.
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