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...most importantly, the editors have overmoralized the whole randomization issue. In relying on divisive steretypes, they dismiss the practical and personal factors which influence a first-year's housing preferences...
Although I share the staff's reservations about non-ordered choice, I think the proposal at least merits further examination. To dismiss the widely-supported compromise as merely "political" accomplishes nothing. Perhaps Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 will maintain the status quo this year but ask students to fill out an additional non-ordered choice form this spring to use as valid data...
...according to Counihan, Banker has asked the court to dismiss the case on grounds that McMillan had an ulterior motive--to get Banker involved in her fight to stop development on the University-owned Harvard Motor House site...
...Massachusetts, Dukakis has become an object of political scorn. The Governor who boasted repeatedly during the 1988 presidential campaign of balancing ten budgets in a row is drowning in red ink. His credibility is shot. Legislators he once controlled dismiss him as irrelevant. Rarely has a lustrous reputation sunk so far so fast...
...Bush and other Republicans who have espoused right-to-life views are trying to accomplish. While the abortion funding debate worked to their favor, they gave it a prominent slot on the GOP docket. But as soon as they felt a shift in the political weather, they tried to dismiss the issue. "It's no longer important if it puts wind in their sails, not ours," they said, but the voters, especially those in Virginia, didn...