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...College will confer 1,590 degrees: 1,573 bachelor of arts degrees and 17 bachelor of science degrees, according to the Harvard News Office...
...short run, to a meeting. E.U. heads of government will confer next week in Brussels, where they will probably pronounce the constitution (which must be approved by all 25 member nations in order to take effect) comatose, if not dead. They might try to repackage a few of its less controversial changes in a form that can be approved by parliaments rather than popular vote, given that parliaments thus far have backed the constitution. But such a move might look provocatively undemocratic-perhaps not the best strategy after a vote that was seen as a rejection of the ruling elites...
...aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook...
...fellow senator were entertaining women on a yacht in the Mediterranean. Johnson too had many affairs, but he stands out more for his trademark crudeness. “[H]e liked to discomfit ‘the Harvards’… by forcing them to confer with him while he sat on the toilet, and he was a lifelong exhibitionist who in college had dubbed his penis ‘Jumbo,’” Morrow relates...
...house just before 10 a.m. Reagan will be waiting on a flight of gray stone steps leading to the rear portico, hand outstretched for a historic shake. After a brief get-acquainted session, the President and General Secretary, each accompanied by seven aides and a translator, will confer until noon, return to their residences for lunch, and meet again from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. To accommodate the parties, the U.S. has shipped to Geneva a 16-ft.-long stretch oval table from the New York City building housing the American mission to the U.N. Should the leaders decide...