Word: assign
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Would a professor assign only one or two books to teach an entire subject? There is not better way to be alive to ideas than to live them. Nor is there a better way to educate and challenge one another than to share one's self and ideas than to challenge one's self. Semester at Sea did all of this and enough more to take me a lifetime to fully unpack...
...People who suffer abuse for a long time can become adept at sensing impending violence. "They are hypervigilant, sensitive to aggressive cues," explains Mones. "They know when someone is going to hurt them even though it may not be apparent to the outside observer." He calls for prosecutors to assign parricide cases to trained child-abuse investigators rather than to regular homicide detectives...
...other universities, housing is doled out by availability. Harvard's house system has always had commitment to creating a community in each house. But this could just as easily be achieved if we adopted a system similar to Yale's college system. They assign their first-year students to a college at the same time as a first-year dorm. That way, the students can spend a whole year getting to know the environment in the house where they will spend their next three years. The community becomes just as strong...
...would anyone attempt to assign educational value to "G.I. Joe," a perfectly friendly but educationally uninspiring cartoon hero...
...vice-presidential candidate -- however, was Bill Clinton's alone. How he made it, says one aide, illustrates how he is likely to make decisions in the White House -- if he gets there. His method is to solicit ideas from many friends and aides and often virtually to assign a particular associate the task of arguing for or against one particular choice. The aide in question, who had for a time been watching Tsongas on the campaign trail, began getting late-night calls from Clinton, who would ask, "O.K., why should Paul Tsongas not be my running mate?" Clinton would then...