Word: buts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Civic Forum, the opposition group led by Havel, proposed him for president Sunday, but Communist members of Parliament proposed a referendum of citizens to choose a president.
But the acknowledgment of difference is a far cry from declaring, "It's all or nothing in the housing lottery.
BUT for this "all or nothing" symbolic victory, randomization would sacrifice much good in the community, without even guaranteeing that diversity's goals would be upheld. For nowhere in an incompletely diverse American can one find the road to equality perfectly paved over. It seems artificial, extreme, and self-defeating...
But these sharply focused breakdowns of the house system do not warrant total randomization. Though significant, findings released by the College of other disparities do not either.
At its best moment, the staff concludes, "Segregation, voluntary or involuntary, accentuates differences and breeds intolerance." This is vitally, damnably true. But exaggeration or misinterpretation of the degree of this segregation risks a blind, reflexive response. The place for correcting very human, very social failings, lies within students themselves. Holding...