Word: assign
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While the Harvard randomized housing system may have its short-comings, it would be a step in the wrong direction to assign upper-class living quarters before the first year. The one great thing about the Harvard system is that students can choose with whom they will live...
...When you look through a facebook and assign them to one race, you are classifying them in a way that may not be fair," said Fernandez, who is of Indian descent...
...attend college to take pre-college courses, like advanced math. According to Diane Ravitch, author of National Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide, their secret is no secret: a core curriculum. "Catholics don't ask parents what courses their children should take," she says approvingly. "They just assign them...
Whether they get to assign them to more refugees from the public schools depends on the U.S. Supreme Court, which is sure to address the question of religious-school vouchers, very possibly in a case growing out of the Cleveland program. Although it still gives no sign of approving direct government payments to sectarian schools, the court in recent years has begun to define rules that might allow parents to pass along government money, so long as the funds are not targeted at any particular denomination and are available to public, private or parochial schools--all tests that Cleveland...
...said she will ask a special three-judge court to give Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr the authority to oversee that probe. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said the Administration would welcome an outside investigation, and hoped that it would "shut up" GOP critics. Reno's decision to assign an independent prosecutor will deflect GOP allegations that the White House is influencing the investigation, says TIME's Jay Carney. In addition, Starr, Reno's original choice for the job, seems to be the most logical choice, because it was his Travelgate inquiry which brought the mishandling of confidential...