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Chief of the Harvard University Police Department Paul E. Johnson last night announced a plan to assign officers to specific areas of the campus in an effort to make the department more accessible to the community...
Finally, the issue of assigning blame should not even be a consideration in this case. Shall we also assign blame to cancer patients who did not decrease their risk through diet, exercise or not smoking? Or to heart disease patients who did not lower their blood-pressure and reduce stress? No one is to blame for the spread of AIDS; it is cause by virus. It does not care who you are, it merely seeks to reproduce...
Mentioning reader-response was my wimpy attempt to subvert having to make categorical statements about what the author was trying to do. If I learned anything about theory as an English concentrator, I know not to assign any importance to authorial intent...
...small plane to interview Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, now a Democratic presidential hopeful, when a thunderstorm hit. "Clinton loved it," she says. "But I'm a white-knuckle flyer even in clear skies." As the plane bucked and lurched, she recalled that it is one of her duties to assign stories to the bureau's correspondents -- but she had assigned this one to herself...
Influential supporters of ROBERT GATES complain that the White House is bungling his confirmation as Director of Central Intelligence. Instead of putting experienced handlers in charge, as was done with Judge Clarence Thomas, Bush waited until last month to assign the task to Andrew Card, a Sununu deputy with little congressional savvy. Already facing opposition in the Senate, Gates, whose confirmation hearings begin next week, will find the going even tougher as questions about the agency's role in Iran-contra continue...