Word: assignment
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Galluccio said he hopes to emphasize his hands-on experience with public education. Galluccio served as the chair of Cambridge’s School Committee until his term as mayor ended 10 days ago, and the group recently passed a ground-breaking diversity plan that will assign children to elementary schools according to their socioeconomic status...
...people often retort that sexual violence, while it does debase women, is an impossible issue to resolve and we cannot assign responsibility to or blame men alone. “Boys will be boys”—but is that really true? According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a reported 2.8 percent of the national female student population per semester are raped. People assign blame to the final clubs, fraternities, athletic teams and the administration for its weak policies on sexual assault. While these all play a role, we the students are really to blame...
...JOSH TYRANGIEL pulls triple duty for this week's issue: he reviews Garth Brooks' new album, writes an Olympic ski preview and profiles three men detained in the Justice Department's antiterrorism investigation. "That's what happens," he says, "when they assign stories using a dartboard." Chat with Josh live about all these subjects on Tuesday...
...officials decided that the situation was just too chaotic to assign blame, so they just punished everyone. All ten skaters on the ice were given two minute roughing penalties, and an additional intereference infraction was charged to Korbl for his initial...
...military wants to assign a single four-star officer to protect American territory, just as four others are responsible for the European, Central, Pacific and Southern commands. These regional commanders in chief are called CINCs. Although CINCs have been around since World War II, there's never been such a high-ranking officer in charge of defending the U.S. It's likely that the mission will be assigned to either the Norfolk-based Joint Forces Command, which oversees 80% of U.S. forces based inside the U.S., or NORAD, based in Colorado Springs, Colo. The homeland-defense commander would support...