"Well, there's Eric Foner, of Columbia," said the vice-president for chancy loans, who had been given the assignment of proposing some historians for the job.
Years after the conversation we'd had in 2000, it occurred to me that, had she been given the assignment, she probably could have found that pumpernickel bagel.
The Independent, a London newspaper, however, reported yesterday that the designer had been given the assignment over the phone by his brother, Nasir Chaderchi, who is a prominent Sunni member of the council.
Attending from the Pentagon was Walter Slocombe, who has been given the assignment to examine the growing problem of how to get under control the military forces that each of the main opposition leaders now controls in Iraq.
I had just been given the assignment of providing protection for the wife of the newly elected president of the United States, and I was about to meet her for the first time.
He had been given the assignment of looking into the cemetery's history in order to find out if there were any available plots.
A different source within the Times confirmed that Jehl is indeed on the story, having been given the assignment not from New York but from the paper's Washington bureau.
