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...first option, called a "total random" system, is modeled after Yale College's housing lottery. It would assign individual students to a House by random when they register as freshmen...
...second option, known as the "modified random" proposal, would randomly assign student-chosen rooming groups to the Houses during the spring of their freshman year...
...should have clearly defined political and military objectives. And we should know precisely how our forces can accomplish those clearly defined objectives." Weinberger criticized the Marines' untenable Beirut mission: "We must . . . not assign a combat mission to a force configured for peace keeping...
...extensive vetoes. The Times's Washington editor, William Kovach, announced that the newspaper would boycott further debates this year: "We cannot encourage a process that has a political saliva test administered by candidates. We all know where that leads-to asking the White House who we can assign to cover it." CBS News President Edward Joyce also pulled his reporters out of contention for subsequent debates...
...Brennan: "Calling this the Burger Court is a complete misnomer. He is the least analytical and the least astute, and he has the least time for the substantive work of the court." Burger has irked some of his colleagues, who suspect that he has used his power to assign the written opinions of the court to reward his friends and punish his enemies...