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...consistently refused to confirm or deny the rumors that circulated within the law school, had said in September that he would like to announce his choice for dean by the first of the new year. Timing an announcement after the Christmas holidays or during exam period would trigger the least student response...
Sullivan helped to confirm two long-suspected notions this winter. The first is that he is a man of principles, and as such is not likely to back down on any position--so in all probability, scratch Fisk. The second is that many Red Sox fans do not agree with those principles...
...Board of Overseers meets and can confirm the recommendation in mid-April. Corporation members, who must also confirm the selection choice, declined to comment whether the recommendation was approved at a meeting yesterday...
...painted or not. For art does not act directly on politics in the way that the engagé wing of the avantgarde, from Courbet onward, expected it to do. All it can do is provide examples of radical feeling and models of dissent, unless it simply wishes to confirm the status...
...would have asked. Over on CBS, Morton Dean was curious as to why only 41 of the 52 hostages were present. Dean demanded of the CBS man on the scene whether it was true, as Dean had been told in Wiesbaden but hadn't been able to confirm, that some of the hostages weren't speaking to others. The CBS man said he didn't know. Well, if Morton Dean had not been able to confirm it, why was he now floating such a report over...