With his 2014 assignment, Costas becomes U.S. television's first 10-time Olympic prime-time host.
When he handed in his summer assignments by their start-of-term deadline his teachers were amazed that he had been able to code the Summly app and still have time for his coursework.
I'd have Gregory, who isn't bureau chief (and shouldn't be), walk the political beat all week in preparation for his show and not let his Today assignments get in the way of his real work.
By all rights, Vishal, a bright 17-year-old, should already have finished the book, Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," his summer reading assignment.
"The irony was, my dad was a devout Irish-Catholic Democrat Kennedy supporter," said Thomas Hosty, one of Mr. Hosty's nine children, a lawyer, who helped his father write his 1995 memoir, "Assignment: Oswald".
Gen. Perry M. Smith compiled a glossary to the insider lingo at Fort Fumble in his 1989 book "Assignment: Pentagon" that includes "Face time: time spent near big bosses in attempts to impress them with your diligence and loyalty". Night face, or after-hours contact, counts double; weekend face counts quadruple.
In 1945, his assignment was to direct the collection and safekeeping of art in a period when some on the winning side of World War II, including Americans, were tempted merely to plunder.
As discussed on the blog earlier this week, his assignment could probably be easier: the Bees need at least five or six wins from their last eight games, having collected just eight victories from 38 outings thus far.
By 1896 his assignment book records that he was buying and collecting comic songs and securing the singing rights.
Complete any summer assignments early.
