Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon plans a series of briefings with the two key aides who will accompany him-Secretary of State William Rogers and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger-and senior specialists in European affairs at State. He has also scheduled a long session on international monetary matters with Treasury Secretary David Kennedy...
...Thomas H. Mahoney, a member of the Cambridge PTA, said that "In 1952 we experienced what has become famous as family night. On that night the School Committee met in executive session and appointed eight people to positions in the school system without interviewing any of them. Three of those appointees were relatives of committee members. Since then, 'family night' has become synonymous with patronage politics in Cambridge. We are here tonight because we fear another family night...
Grand Inquisitor. Though Illich's examination itself was inconclusive, the Congregation ultimately ruled against him. Three weeks ago, it issued an order that all Roman Catholic priests and members of religious orders were henceforth forbidden to study at the Cuernavaca center. Illich was not surprised. Even before his session at the Vatican, he had quietly asked for-and had received-temporary lay status from New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke. Thus he gave up the right to say Mass and perform other priestly functions but also adroitly deprived the Vatican of any effective power of suspension...
...Crimson traded basket for basket with the Lions for most of the final session, cutting the Columbia margin to one point, 53-52, on a Chris Gallagher lay up with 9:16 left. From there to the end it was a complete seesaw with neither team in complete control until the final buzzer...
Giving make-up exams to a substantial proportion of the College would of course involve additional expense, but it would not be exorbitant. A more serious problem would be to find while the term is in session enough rooms to use for test-taking. But one could give everyone not taking a make-up a mid-semester reading period. Some professors would be inconvenienced by having to write an additional exam, but the inconvenience is more than counterbalanced by the greater freedom offered students...