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Above all, I never neglected my responsibility to be accessible to students. On more than one occasion, I made special trips to Cambridge in order to confer with students beset with sudden problems or questions. I gave pointers to juniors and seniors contemplating their honors theses. I even took an extended leave of absence from my regular job in New Hampshire to concentrate on my teaching assistant duties...
...very unscientific poll of pre-frosh this week, even those prospective members of the Class of 1994 who are not completely certain about their college choice know better than to head south. "I didn't see a lot of trees when I was at Yale," lamented Molly Confer of Lincoln, Neb. "Why would anyone like Yale?" asked Rachel J. Storch, who hails from St. Louis...
...remains unclear whether the talks between the government and the A.N.C. will begin before or after Mandela flies to Lusaka this week to confer with the organization's leaders. Negotiations may be further delayed if Mandela decides to make a world tour, meeting with the ailing A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo in Stockholm, visiting A.N.C. guerrilla camps in Tanzania and perhaps accepting invitations from President George Bush and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to visit their countries...
...Soviet Minister of the Interior, Vadim Bakatin, told a press conference in Baku that Azerbaijan's own police force suffered only a "temporary" loss of control when mobs broke into Armenian homes and killed dozens of people. He suggested that the Front confer with the police on restoring order. "There are," said Bakatin, "undoubtedly healthy forces within the Popular Front with whom the police must actively cooperate." But Bakatin obviously had a different opinion of the police than his ministerial colleague at Defense did: Yazov publicly accused the police of supplying guns to the Front...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we 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 it 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 blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders...