Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if the houses weren't diverse, we would still benefit from Harvard's diversity. Very few of us are so socially inept that we never leave our house. We meet people in different classes and activities. Contrary to what some people think, we all have lives. Some of us even go to parties...
...convinced that the present lottery system allows us to benefit from Harvard's diversity, then I'd like to draw your attention to some of the other alternatives that might maximize both student choice and diversity. I would be impossible to list all of the plans that people have suggested to me over the past weeks, so I will only detail what I consider to be the best alternative: non-ordered choice...
...ordered choice alternative and the present system let the students choose their own housing and still don't impede our ability to benefit from Harvard's diversity. If the housing lottery debate forced us to choose between the goals of diversity and student choice, we would be in the difficult situation of having to weigh the relative value of these two goods...
...there are the journalists. With benefit of 20/20 hindsight, Newsweek pictured a victorious Noriega on last week's cover under the telling caption "Amateur Hour." The London Economist called the episode Bush's "Bay of Piglets." In a lonely (and uncharacteristic) defense of Bush, The New York Times said, "Mr. Bush may have had good reason to temporize his backing of the Panamanian coup plotters...
Kalikow said the Lutheran Homeless Center and the Jefferson Park Teen Drop-In are among the groups which will benefit from the funds...