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Students could be ranked by grade group, the top minds--with first crack at the choices--most likely opting for the river houses where they would closer to classes. But under this system the Quad would gain an additional stigma: "I live at the Quad" might become...
...damage. Boisjoly knew that lower temperatures reduced the resiliency and hardness of the rings. At 29 degrees , the anticipated temperature of the O rings the next morning, he feared that getting the rings to seal gaps in the joints might be like "trying to shove a brick into a crack," although it should be like "a sponge...
While Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth has promised to crack down on drug abuse in the major leagues, he has also maintained that his intention was to "get rid of drugs, not players." Last week Ueberroth achieved his goal with deftly wrought penalties against 21 admitted or suspected drug users. The commissioner ordered the conditional one-year suspension of seven admitted abusers, stipulating that they would be allowed to compete if they donated 10% of their salaries to drug-prevention programs, worked 100 hours in drug- related community-service projects over each of the next two years, and submitted to random...
...opening the door of the gulag a crack and blitzing the West with proposals of all kinds, Gorbachev is raising expectations in the West for this year's $ summit. If those high hopes are dashed, Reagan is likely to get the blame. The White House seems to be aware of the danger. Last week Reagan unveiled a counteroffer on INF that exempts Britain and France from restricting their forces and moves toward compromise on other sticking points. There is still hard negotiating ahead, and Gorbachev last week warned that there must be "concrete progress" on arms control for a summit...
...thin ice begins to crack underfoot as Koch goes on, without any explicit analysis, to invoke the names of Kant, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Mill. He attempts to paraphrase this assemblage of Moral Reasoning luminaries: "natural law properly authorizes the sovereign to take life in order to vindicate justice." Koch's mistranslation of social contractarian arguments looks more like totalitarianism than democracy...