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...Everyone at Harvard procrastinates," Brinton said. " It's the paper phenomenon. If you assign a paper due in three weeks, no one's going to do it until right before it's due." Brinton said he believed that the number of dues-paying members who had crossed party lines to vote was "minimal...
This incorrect label misrepresents the concerns of people commonly called "pro-choice" or "reproductive rights activists" by foregrounding only the most controversial aspect of the work they do. While choosing not to call pro-choice activists by the names we assign ourselves, your author did see fit to call activists who might be called "anti-choice" or "anti-abortion" by their preferred label, "pro-life...
When old friends die, unintended we assign them a rank in our memory. Bob Trout will be in the top row in the memory of anyone who knew him. We were not close friends, but I knew him first in London in 1943 and last at lunch three weeks ago. Walter Cronkite, Bob Trout and I were to have appeared together last Friday at the University of Texas in Austin. Bob called to say he felt unwell. "Unwell" is all he would have said...
...left with no choice. Quite definitively, this is the only clear way to assign the Presidency. We'll get the game aired on national television, and every eye in the country will be trained on Harvard's fair football field. We'll wave campaign banners in the stands and open a presidential seating section. This is it, folks. The moment you've all been waiting for. Tomorrow afternoon, amidst a raucous crowd donned in Harvard and Yale gear, the next president will be decided. So play on--and may the best school...
Deerfield Coach Jim Lindsay was making out lines during practice before the 1998 season and forgot to assign his leading scorer--Tyler Kolarik--to a unit. Lindsay looked at his roster and saw only two available forwards, Chip Canner and a large, gangly kid named Robert Fried who had seen only spot minutes at the varsity level the previous season. Heck, Lindsay thought, Kolarik and Fried were roommates, maybe these wingers have some potential together...