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Harvard faces a difficult decision on whether to retain an element of free choice in housing assignments. While the goal of free choice is attractive, it is unattainable with Harvard's varied housing alternatives. The best way to avoid or diminish the annual agonizing of freshmen assigned to Houses they dislike is a move to Yale's assignment system. Under this plan, all first-year students would be associated randomly with a House before they arrive in Cambridge, and allowed to transfer before sophomore year...
After meeting with Beame, two labor leaders threatened a general strike, which would shut down most public services, paralyze transportation, further diminish investors' confidence and seriously disrupt the city's economy. Said local Teamster President Barry Feinstein: "We have given our blood. The unions are bleeding to death...
...diminish the impersonality of Kosinski's narrative technique, Tarden says virtually nothing about how he feels, or about what sort of person he is. Once or twice he relates a view of him reflected in the perceptions of some third person, as when he eavesdrops on a mistress describing him to someone else; on those occasions it is as if a bit of recognizable reality has accidentally made its way into Tarden's nightmarish, monomaniacal descriptions of torture and death. There is no question but that Kosinski is a fiction writer of considerable craft, as well as imagination. These...
...could afford to supply about $4.5 billion in aid, or about 10% of its balance of payments surplus. By 1980, according to the World Bank's McNamara, many of the OPEC states "are likely to reduce their level of aid as their imports rise and their trade surpluses diminish." Economists argue, moreover, that some of the more radical demands will in fact prove to be self-defeating. By dangling the threat of nationalization with only token compensation, they are likely to discourage badly needed capital investment...
Such an action would probably intensify rather than diminish the debate. The scrappy Butz was undoubtedly right in contending, as he did last week, that "there's nothing evil about exporting food" and the U.S. needs the income derived from such sales to pay for the large amount of oil it imports. He may have been correct, too, in claiming that neither Soviet purchases nor U.S. farmers can properly be blamed if food prices continue to rise in American supermarkets. What is even more certain, however, is that nothing is quite so maddening to most Americans as the rising...