"Quite often the judges are debating among themselves and just using the lawyers as a backboard," Chief Justice Roberts explained to the students afterward, referring to appellate arguments in his court and others.
"The morally right thing generally takes us beyond self-interest," she explained to the students, after inquiring about their career dreams (working for the federal Food and Drug Administration, dazzling the world with a new food substance).
Dennis L. Meadows, the inventor of Fish Banks and a professor of systems management at the university, explained to the students the software nuts and bolts behind their successes and failures as entrepreneurs -- what rules governed fish reproduction, for instance.
That morning, at each of the 10 periods of gym class, school safety officers explained to the students how the process would work: Line up, remove metal from your pockets, take off your belt and walk through the metal detector.
Before the quarry blast, Dr. Worsey, a stocky Briton with a puckish air, explained to the students that they would be disappointed if they expected to see a Hollywood explosion, with boulders flying and flames leaping.
Pouring cooked spaghetti out of the pot, Dr. Weitz explained to the students that the strands entangle and rub against one another and that the friction slows their movement, increasing the viscosity.
Crimson Editors Sarah L.A. Erwin and Julia L. Ryan explained to the student that she would have to be strategic in her search for a sex partner and outlined four groups of campus men for her to target, among them, freshmen and librarians.
Remaining calm and confident, Damienne explained to the student that protecting oneself against HIV requires adopting a life of discipline.
