Now I would like to apologize to Fakher for the truly unforgivable sin of humorlessness in a war zone and - for at least parts of our time together - a lack of appreciation for the way that Fakher risked his life every day on both routine and extraordinary assignments.
In 37 years with the Times, Martin has had an extraordinary range of assignments from local business reporter to national reporter to foreign correspondent.
In my first three years at Princeton High School, in the late nineteen-forties, my English teacher was Olive McKee, whose self-chosen ratio of writing assignments to reading assignments seems extraordinary in retrospect and certainly differed from the syllabus of the guy who taught us in senior year.
I felt he did an extraordinary job with a delicate assignment.
"'I felt he did an extraordinary job with a delicate assignment," Mr. Bush said.
This led to assignments directing an extraordinary 152 live television dramas between 1954 and 1960 -- an average of one every two weeks -- for "Playhouse 90" and other anthology series.
"It was just an everyday act of an everyday assignment, which is quite extraordinary when you look back".
If illness or an extraordinary circumstance will cause you to submit an assignment late, then you should discuss the matter with your instructor as soon as possible.
After all, the assignment is not to write down ten extraordinary things about you, or ten things that no one else in the world has ever done -- just ten nice things that, again, you can look at and say, "Yep.
Housing & Residential Services reserves the right to make specific assignments in cases it deems special or extraordinary, such as those involving medical or personal problems.
The biggest challenge of this assignment was to tell the story of this extraordinary journey of the salmon, and also live to tell about it.
