Word: conferred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard begins to confer its degrees on undergraduate women, signed by both presidents. The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences admits women, and the Radcliffe Graduate School is closed...
...lesser punishment for Douglas wrote in a letter to the Crimson that "Rape is not an undifferentiable single act. Rather it is a category of acts that vary dramatically in their causes and consequences...it is easy to imagine rapes that warrant the most severe penalty we can confer, if not more, It is our belief that this space dies not fall in that category...
...details of the case that led to ourmotion," they wrote in the letter. "It is easy toimagine rapes that warrant the most severe penaltywe can confer, if not more. It is our belief thatthis rape does not fall into that category...
Because of the "48 hour rule" in New York City, the police officers involved had two days to confer with a police union labor lawyer, before making a comment to the public. Predictably, they offered a terse statement, saying they believed Diallo was a rape suspect who had been reaching...
...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 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, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...