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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
    AK>  Another strange expression in English. In Russia we   
    AK>  see it like "It is the best such people like you can   
    AH>  do! (and very possibly there are a lot of people who   
    AH>  can do better)." ;-)   
      
      
             Hmm.  Reminds me of how, year after year, I saw in a local newspaper   
   that an undergraduate in math got a 100% average.  In the arts & humanities it   
   is not possible to get a 100% average because the theory is that no matter how   
   good your work is someone else might eventually do better... or the instructor   
   might be embarrassed if there is some flaw which passed unnoticed at the time.   
   As a student & as a teacher I have often felt disadvantaged by this reasoning.   
   OTOH one of the important lessons I learned at university was that even when I   
   couldn't get to the library before all the official commentaries on some piece   
   of literature had been taken out my instructors liked what I had to say.  :-))   
      
      
      
    AK>  Have I put correctly the three last punctuation marks?   
      
      
             IMHO, yes.  I'd have done what you did there.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
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