Word: assignations
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...heart of all of what we know as our “identities.” The constantly shifting balance of powers renders most of us minorities in some respects, at some times. Given the fluctuation, how do we negotiate the competing claims? To which identities do we assign primary, secondary, et al, importance, and to which do we feel most bound...
...movement continued to gain steam as 86 professors, including 73 of the 86 female senior Faculty members, signed a statement “to urge the Harvard administration to assign its highest priority to reversing the downward trend of the past three years in FAS senior offers to women...
Despite these problems, our professors seem to feel a need to assign this much reading. Do they want to prove that they are making us work hard? Is quantity really the only means they have of gauging our engagement? Are they so out-of-touch with our thought processes that they dare not evaluate them, that they do not believe they can make us think better and harder? Quality is much more difficult to quantify. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield writes that “Harvard has become too easy” and that “there...
Bryant now bounces from the criminal-justice system into the civil arena. His attorneys may have to assign a price to keep him from giving what will be a very sordid deposition. Atlanta attorney L. Lin Wood, who represents the plaintiff, told TIME, "There have been no settlement discussions with respect to the civil case," adding that Bryant's apology was independent of the civil matter...
...recommendations call for the Core to be replaced by a set of distributional requirements and new survey classes, a one-semester delay in the concentration choice deadline, increased emphasis on the sciences and international experiences, as well as a possible switch to a Yale-style housing system that would assign first-years to an upperclass House before entering the College...