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...would always agree to that, but was never really sure of the nature of my assent, or, for that matter, of the nature of my ascent. For whenever I would mention the word "Harvard" in association with my name, the air of reverence I was being treated with would rise accordingly, and some-what disturbingly...
...Admissions Office has been seeking a more permanent home--currently examining a possible home in Hemenway Gymnasium across the Cambridge Common--ever since Radcliffe announced it would not assent to a long-term lease with...
...bare conference room in the Palace of Nations, waiters brought in trays of steaming coffee to help keep alert the four envoys and a lower-level representative from China. Aziz by then had Baghdad's assent to the terms in the Russian statement, Primakov told the group. Iraq would allow all the inspectors, including the Americans, to return with no restrictions on their movements. It was important that the ministers now accept the Russian document as a joint statement on what the West expected of Iraq, he argued...
Audience response to the forum was generally positive, with plentiful applause and nods of assent...
...defense team, featuring Barry Scheck, who had been part of O.J. Simpson's "dream team," had been so confident of its case that it had turned down a last-minute offer by the prosecution to include manslaughter as an option to present to the jury. Instead, with Woodward's assent, the defense persuaded the judge that the verdict should be all or nothing--murder or acquittal. It was a gamble that went terribly wrong. "It was stunning," said Alex MacDonald, a local trial attorney. "I do not know any lawyer in the Greater Boston area who has any reaction other...