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Sellers said yesterday that he has not been on the job long enough to assess the school's current affirmative action policy, adding that he has set no firm numerical goals...
...PASSER--If at any time while the team captain is attempting to shake the hand of or kiss a teammate who has just succeeded in scoring, a member of the opposing team takes offense, and as a result harms said captain during his show of jubilation, the referee will assess a penalty of 15 yards against the guilty player's team. The penalty will take effect on the first play from scrimmage after the kickoff...
...this newspaper's role to assess blame for the debacle surrounding the Rolling Stones' near miss with Boston--the off-on-off-on-off-on-maybe-later concert that wavered mystically between reality and myth and ended finally in limbo. There is enough blame for everyone to share, and the strung-along and ultimately shut-out Stones fans in this area had no trouble allotting...
According to Usher, Harvard's fall season will be largely a sorting out period where he can assess his troops in pressure situations. In addition to being armed with plenty of new talent, Usher will have eight new hard-top outdoor tennis courts at his disposal...
...return to familiar ground as well. Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce set out to reconstruct Helms' early political background by interviewing the Senator's friends and associates in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh and in Helms' boyhood home of Monroe. Boyce was well suited to assess the small-town rhythms of Monroe, with its old courthouse dominating the square and its passion for politics; he was reared in the very similar town of Danville, Ill., seat of the legendary Speaker of the House Joe Cannon. Says Boyce: "Politics aside, I could understand why those who knew...