Word: givens
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Doubts must still linger. A CIA analyst will be part of the K-School research team, and his role is as yet undefined. How will he aid such eminent scholars as Professors Richard Neustadt, Ernest May and Gregory Treverton? Given the inherent tension between a highly secretive, intelligence-gathering branch of the government and a private research institution, the role of this analyst needs to be spelled out so as to prevent abuses of academic freedom that might benefit only...
...write to correct an impression that I must have given to Arnold Zipper in a telephone conversation about Paul de Man's collaborationist writings. I am appalled that Paul de Man (or anyone else) could have held and expressed a view of cultural homogeneity that entailed anti-Semitism, and I am greatly distressed that he was an uncritical participant in a vicious time. The fact that the later de Man manifested no trace of anti-Semitism and fought against facile political totalization does not, for me, excuse his earlier writings. Barbara Johnson Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Officer Robert Ames, the association's president, said all of the other city unions had accepted a contract granting a uniform pay raise for all city employees, with the proviso that if any union was given a higher raise, the others could reopen negotiations over wages...
Ames said that in Boston, where a police officer was killed on duty last spring, the police were given a nineteen-and-a-half percent raise over a three year period...
Those missed shots--especially the one Dave Murray missed with a chance to tie the game with seven seconds on the clock--may have given the Crimson the game. That's why they call the foul line the charity stripe...