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Though tonight's Beanpot opener against Boston College was but 48 hours away. Cleary had little to say about it Saturday. "I have to assess what happened today," he said...
...ceremony, although emotionally charged, was held without incident, but Miami knew that it could not afford to relax. Eight investigations were under way to pinpoint the causes of the disorder and assess the performance of the Miami police against the rock-throwing, car-trashing and window-smashing mobs. Some of the probes focused on Policeman Luis Alvarez, who shot Johnson in the head at short range after, police claimed, the victim had made a "sudden move." Johnson had a handgun under his shirt...
...HAVE TO APPROACH a book on leadership by Richard Nixon with a healthy does of cynicism. It is absurd, if not pathetic that probably the most mortally decrepit U.S. President ever has judged himself fit to assess such 20th century leaders Churchill De Gaulle MacArthur or Chou...
...money raised by the nickel gas tax will be distributed according to a complex formula that tries to assess each state's need, population, land area and readiness to use the funds. Since the Department of Transportation works regularly with the states to determine highway priorities, plans for using the money are ready; no new bureaucracy is needed to disburse...
...implications of genetic engineering are so staggering as to frustrate efforts to assess them clearly. When the technology of celestral navigation was first systematized by Henry the Navigator, mankind did not know where their ships, so guided, would travel. Similarly, the newly-discovered road map to life itself will undoubtedly lead us to new worlds of which we now have no knowledge. To extend the metaphor. I am arguing that we need to take special care to have in the "crow's nest" someone watching not only for reefs and rocks but also for new land...