The debate over same-sex education in public schools Single-Sex Educationon Is Assailed in Report," news article, Sept. 23) is an important one.
It does give attention to Ms. Raab's significant accomplishments, but especially because of its headline, "Amid Exits, President of Hunter College Is Assailed for Her Management Style," the overall impression is negative.
A6 World Briefing A7 NATIONAL A8-13 Bush Donor Bought Ads; Propriety Is Assailed A wealthy Texas businessman, Sam Wyly, one of Gov. George W. Bush's biggest campaign contributors, said he had paid $2.5 million for political commercials that criticized Senator John McCain and promoted Mr. Bush's environmental record.
Throughout his 12 years as mayor I assailed Mr. Koch — in a Brooklyn newspaper that I edited, in Dissent, in The Village Voice and even while working across the hall from him as a speechwriter for the City Council president, Carol Bellamy, whom the mayor at one point denominated, with his customary grace, "a horror show".
I assailed then-DCI George Tenet for not sharing vital information with the FBI that could have arguably stopped and/or delayed the attacks.
I'll assail him with ideas like "Wolf Blitzer versus Blitzkriegs".
I could assail you with dozens of other stories like this, and so could other attendees.
Immediately after opening Facebook, I was assailed by people I used to sit next to in maths at school suddenly fancying themselves the ultimate master comedians with a little light humour about a predator and his victims.
Photo: Andy Rain/EPA Visiting the big new Francis Bacon exhibition at London's Tate Britain this week, I was assailed by what I can only describe as a repressed memory - a memory which is bizarre in the extreme, and entirely shaming and unedifying.
This morning I was assailed by such sadness at the velocity of life — the distance I've travelled from my own youth, the persistence of the old regrets, the new regrets, the ability of failure to freshen itself in novel forms — that I almost crashed the car.
