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Apparently, Jewett and others feel that if randomization is implemented, students will seek to circumvent it by transferring into other houses. To avoid this, they have suggested that students who wish to transfer should enter a lottery, in which they will be assigned--you guessed it--to a random house...
Authorities are also concerned about the adequacy of current laws in dealing with computer and network crime. While most states now have some kind of computer-crime laws, those laws often go uninvoked, largely because such crimes are still rare and prosecutors have little experience with them. To circumvent this...
Even before the loss of traffic to the Internet and related technologies, government-operated mail service was losing the overnight letter- and parcel- delivery businesses to firms such as Federal Express and United Parcel Service. So far the post office has held its own because of the growing volume of...
To circumvent the expressed will of Massachusetts, Cambridge is trying to formulate a home-rule petition that will allow the city to keep a modified form of rent control. It faces serious obstacles, not the least of which is division within the pro-rent control community.
A handful of other places -- notably Baltimore, Maryland, and Hartford, Connecticut -- are experimenting with a far more radical way to circumvent bureaucracy: hiring a for-profit company to run their schools. "The idea," says Baltimore schools superintendent Walter Amprey, "is to have a company ready for true accountability that offers...