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Tate's artistic demands on himself are even more stringent than his social demands. His early training was rigorous. "In his Advanced Composition class. Mr. Ransom would assign all of Shakespeare's sonnets for us to study," Tate remembers. "Then we'd have to write a Shakespearean sonnet of our own, then an Italian sonnet...
...spot legal consultations. "This is really the underside of the law," explains one student. "Defending indigents is a source of rip-offs for many shady lawyers. They get paid by the court for spending as little as five minutes with a client after cronies on the bench assign them to a case...
...addition to the confusion over the number of rooms available to women, there has been some controversy over the procedures used to assign rooms. For example, Whitney will live in a two-room single in Old Leverett, a room for which seniors writing honors theses ordinarily compete fiercely...
Pasztor's grandiose statement that he will no longer give news stories to certain reporters is an attempt to dictate our coverage. We reject it. We will continue to assign reporters to stories as we see fit, not according to Pasztor's whims...
...written by one of President Nixon's own appointees: Chief Justice Warren Burger. His most quotable passages seemed to acknowledge, but to dismiss Nixon's defense of neighborhood schools. "All things being equal, with no history of discrimination," Burger wrote, "it might well be desirable to assign pupils to schools nearest their homes. But all things are not equal in a system that has been deliberately constructed and maintained to enforce racial segregation. The remedy may be administratively awkward, inconvenient and even bizarre and may impose burdens on some; but all awkwardness and inconvenience cannot be avoided...