Subject: Re: Question about Congressional Investigations Paper
From: Brian Gilmore <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 13:13:39 -0400

OK.  The grade does matter to me (clerkship applications, etc.), so I'll
try to beef it up.  If I don't quite make 20 pages of text, I'd ask for a
little leeway, because I did include a number of textual footnotes, where
the substance broke up the flow too much above-the-line.

Thanks,
Brian

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:08 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Your call. You can let it go as is. Might affect the grade.
> On May 9, 2014 7:28 AM, "Brian Gilmore" <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Professor Podesta,
>>
>> Sorry to bother you with a clerical question, but after I turned my paper
>> in yesterday, I noticed that the syllabus said "twenty pages *excluding*footnotes."  All along I hadn't even considered the possibility that the
>> length would be counted as something other than text + footnotes.
>>
>> My paper was 21 pages with footnotes, and now I've gone back to remove
>> all of the footnotes, and it's about 16 pages of text.  I think it's a
>> strong paper, but if the length is a problem, I will spend the day adding
>> to it (assuming that I can even resubmit).  What would you prefer?
>>
>> Thanks, and sorry about the confusion,
>> Brian
>>
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