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Randomized:1. What happens in the spring housing lottery when you get a really low lottery number and your four houses of choice are already filled. The computer will assign you to the remaining, least popular houses. 2. A Harvard event that has ruined many a first-year's spring break (see Angst...
...says Frank Chadwick, a retired Customs official who was then special agent in charge of the Houston Customs office. "We would not be beholden to report to the U.S. State Department in the foreign country." Perot, he says, seemed ready to invest $1 million to $2 million and even assign an employee (another former Green Beret -- Perot keeps a number of them around) to scout potential sites. But Customs headquarters in Washington turned down the idea...
...desegregation effort. But the Supreme Court overturned that order on the ground that the schools' racial makeup reflects "demographic shifts" the school board could not control. In cases in which segregation is not the result of actions by local officials, wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy, courts cannot force schools to assign students by race. The ruling might encourage other school districts to seek a halt to court-ordered integration also...
...like to have my first choice on all the articles we assign," says Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye, who taught Historical Study A-12 in the fall. "But I don't think it had any distorting effect on the course...
...form a secure attachment to an adult in the first two years of life can hamper a child's learning as well as emotional growth. To forestall such damage, Hamburg asserts, women must have access to prenatal care, drug-treatment programs and nutrition counseling. It also helps to assign parental mentors to new mothers (and fathers), and to consolidate social and health services into "one-stop shopping" at local hospitals and clinics...