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...closest aides, Bush instructed a military operator to place a call from Air Force One to the last American who had had to grapple with the decision of whether and how to go to war. When his father came on the line, Bush cleared the cabin so they could confer privately...
When freshmen arrive for one of the two-day orientation sessions held over the summer, their parents are invited to come along. About half do. While the kids take placement tests and register for courses, their parents attend lectures on the development of young adults, confer with parents of current students and get tips on how to gauge their kids' academic progress. ("Ask your students their professors' names two or three weeks into the semester" is one piece of advice from freshman seminars director Rennie Brantz. "If they don't know, they're not engaged...
...University will confer honorary degrees on 11 individuals--including two winners of the National Medal of Science, a former fellow of the Harvard Corporation, a top adviser to President John F. Kennedy '40 and a political and social philosopher--at today's Commencement exercises. Eight men and three women will be honored...
...addition to approving Krieger's course, the Standing Committee also accepted two non-Core courses to confer Core credit...
...aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxical 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...