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...wider issue of randomization, I do not understand why the author of the article wishes to abolish the current system. As a first-year students, I am aware of some of the stereotypes that Pinsker finds so distressing, but I do not find these stereotypes so terrible nor do I think that randomization is the panacea for diversity...
Heinicke denies that Harvard's studentgovernment is too politicized and says he opposesefforts to abolish the council. Still, the newcouncil chair says he would be receptive to anysuggestions put forward by LaRock or others...
...Willmoore Kendall called "verbal parachutes," phrases he could use for bailing out of anything he said. Here, for instance, he answers a question about abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the government's own area of direct rule: "I believe that Congress possesses the constitutional power to abolish it. Yet as a member of Congress I should not, with my present views, be in favor of endeavoring to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, unless it would be upon these conditions. First, that the abolition should be gradual. Second, that it should be as a vote...
...move for both Washington and the Palestinians is Rabin's intention to slow the growth of Jewish settlements in the territories. He rejects the all-out freeze that the Palestinians have demanded and the Bush Administration would prefer, but has made plans to abolish financial incentives for building what he calls "political settlements" -- those in populated Palestinian areas that the Labor Party might one day relinquish in a land-for-peace swap...
There is a growing consensus among policy experts that tinkering with the existing system will not fix its fundamental problems. Some, like conservative Charles Murray, say the solution is to abolish welfare altogether and force its clients to fend for themselves. In his influential 1984 book, Losing Ground, Murray claimed that AFDC actually increases poverty by serving as a disincentive to work and encouraging women to have illegitimate children they cannot support. Others argue that the dole should give way to an entirely new system based on social insurance and jobs...