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...example, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett--still smarting over his housing compromise last year--might support a plan to assign students randomly to cheer for one sport each year. Or the Core committee could require students to cheer for teams in eight of 10 categories...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Me? Cheer? For Them? | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

...example, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett--still smarting over his housing compromise last year--might support a plan to assign students randomly to cheer for one sport each year. Or the Core committee could require students to cheer for teams in eight of 10 categories...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Me? Cheer? For Them? | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...campaign, when he was more concerned with appearing tough. A really nice person doesn't stop being nice when it's inconvenient. More recently, about the budget deficit, there was this classic Bushism: "People understand that Congress bears a greater responsibility for this. But I'm not trying to assign blame." He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is Bush Nice? A Contrarian View | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...council had managed to fend off the changes for a year by convincing house masters to oppose Jewett's randomization plan. But armed with new statistics, Jewett returned this year with a scheme that would assign half the upcoming class to random houses...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Undergraduate Council | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...hostile to the Soviet Union, as a force that whipped up the arms race and the danger of war. Regardless of what is being said about NATO now, for us it is a symbol of the past, a dangerous and confrontational past. And we will never agree to assign it the leading role in building a new Europe. I want us to be understood correctly on this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev Interview: I Am an Optimist | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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