Re: Woman steals 1997 dissertation

k wallace <wallace.k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>David C. Ullrich wrote:
....
>> someone 40 years old today was 32 in 1997. It's
>> happens all the time (alas) that people get PhD's in math
>> at that age or older.
>
>WTF with the 'alas'???

My guess is that David is not bemoaning the simple proposition
"it happens all the time that people get PhD's in math at age 32 or
older", but the complex proposition that "it happens all the time
that people get PhD's in math at age 32 or older, and many if not
all of those people have been in graduate school for 10 or more
years before they get those PhD's".

Lee Rudolph
.

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