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...believe that the College should adopt a uniform policy for limiting course enrollments. It is unfair that different overcrowded courses were limited by different methods this year. But we disagree with the majority's view that a weighted lottery is the answer. In fact, a completely random lottery is the only way to fairly administer course sizes...
...different standards of conduct, their further goal of heightening a lawyer's duty to the public is now out of reach. The rules approved in New Orleans are likely to be formally ratified by the A.B.A. in August, and will serve as a new model for states to adopt...
...36th President. Caro, like many Americans, balks at the idea that desirable policy can be effected through morally questionable means. Yet one lesson modern politics offers is that good causes--like rural electrification or civil rights for Blacks--frequently are not converted into government action until their proponents adopt the methods of compromise and mutual advantage that their opponents have used all along. Lyndon Johnson may have connived with George and Herman Brown to win Federal contracts and finance political campaigns, but the result of the half-legal dams built by Brown & Root was electric power and flood control...
...moderate if self-congratulatory in their defense of detente. Nixon only predictably lambasts the "superdoves" but also lashes out at the "superhawks," in a not-too-subtle Jab at the strident Reagan approach to dealing with the Soviets. A "hard-headed detente" is the best strategy the U.S. could adopt in this nuclear age, he creditably argues When Nixon sets aside ideology and self-interest partially (he can never do it fully), he does prove insightful and at times persuasive. Such glimpses may be one explanation for how a second-rate crook...
...first lecture, never attended section, and never so much as skimmed through any of the 14 required textbooks. On the day of the final, he walked into the exam-room, realized that the ensuring three hours were bound to be little better than a wretched farce, and decided to adopt the noblest course of action he could...