Word: instructing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephone call of being exposed. In 1977, shortly after he had infiltrated a small gang of crooks attached to the Colombo family, two mobsters became suspicious that Pistone was a stoolie and demanded that he provide a criminal reference. Months before, Pistone had asked another FBI agent to instruct a Mob informant in Florida always to be ready to vouch for Donnie Brasco. But had the agent passed on the message? And if he had, would the informant remember? For several tense hours Pistone played cards with the rest of the gang, while a mobster checked out his story. Finally...
...what amounts to a nearly perfect commentary on the current state of Harvard teaching, Smith wrote: "If in each college the tutor or teacher, who was to instruct each student...should not be voluntarily chosen by the student, but appointed by the head of the college; and if, in case of neglect, inability, or bad usage, the student should not be allowed to change him for another...[it] would not only tend very much to extinguish all emulation among the different tutors of the same college, but to diminish very much in all of them the necessity of diligence...
...campus? This is not just because they aren't accepted, but because they don't even bother to try to come here. They know that they wouldn't make the grade, they know they wouldn't fit in. And when dumb people do come here, we generously instruct them. The smartest Harvard students and professors rally to the cause. With clever phrases and melodious hymns we gracefully expose their abysmal dumbness and assert our intellectual primacy. In this way either we gently persuade them and borderline students into being smart or we succeed in keeping them and their dumb ideas...
Vorenberg said in his statement that "I verymuch regret that this incident occurred," and wenton to say that he would instruct thestudent-faculty committee to discuss broad policyquestions concerning the rights of speakers andprotestors at the Law School...
...hold a vote. A coalition can come unraveled; a close initial vote may wind up going the other way. So the first audience a Justice must please is within the court, but the final opinions are directed beyond the litigants to guide lower-court judges, sometimes to instruct the nation, occasionally even to address history...