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Please Excuse Me: An Interview with President Bollinger

September 28, 2007 - 12:00am
By Jeremy Siegman

Back in the utter confusion of grade school, they taught us this wonderfully polite acronym for the order of mathematical operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. I loved calling it PEMDAS, which sounds like some kind of indigestion medicine, although it really stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. A polite acronym for a sometimes ruthless belief in the order and ideality of math.

And it is with firm politeness that I beg you, gracious audience: Please Excuse The Following Column About Politics. PETFCAP. And Please Excuse This Horrible Acronym. Because I didn’t plan it out.