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...amateur in Victor Canning's Birdcage (Morrow; 233 pages; $8.95) is a young ex-copper handling his first major assignment for British intelligence. In fact, he is made to walk two sides of the street, London's Birdcage Walk, home of a covert security operation. Kerslake, as he is called-when treating of the lower classes, the English seldom assign first names-is sent to Portugal to investigate Sarah Branton, who is most definitely U. Sarah has spent eight years in a nunnery and has been saved from a suicidal drowning attempt by Richard Farley, a charming drifter...
Another suggestion was to assign Houses before freshman year, as Yale does, to insure maximum randomization and to avoid having students select Houses on the basis of stereotypes...
Although a computer does assign random numbers to each housing group or bloc, housing officials complete the process by actually sorting the rooming cards into piles, one for each house, officials said...
...headquarters in Langley, Va. Nonetheless, intelligence community members claim that in 1978 the CIA was so short-handed it could not assign people to investigate two suspicious situations abroad. Just what they involved was not disclosed, but one covert official commented: "It doesn't do you any good to know how many tanks are at the border if you don't know what is going to be done with them...
Nine out of ten children of divorced parents end up in the sole custody of the mother. Indeed, judges assign youngsters to the mother so routinely that lawyers usually advise their male clients not to bother bringing a case. A custody fight is "an act of futility," says New York Supreme Court Justice Sybil Hart Kooper, "unless the woman is a prostitute and practicing in front of her children, or a chronic alcoholic who falls down drunk, or a psychotic who is threatening the children's lives...