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Harvard has always been a place that is mindful of traditions. As a great enthusiast for traditions myself, I wonder why the University abandoned the original way of dealing with housing applications. In the past each house boasted its distinct history and characteristics, and people had to apply and be interviewed in order to get in. Because the selection process was competitive, a house almost could not fail to admit students who would contribute the most and savor house life to the fullest. Each house resident would consider it an honor to live in that house and sense the responsibility...
...make this clear from the very beginning: I am a defender of Space Station Freedom. I have supported it ever since the day in 1984 when, as an eight year-old space enthusiast, I watched then-President Ronald Reagan deliver a televised speech announcing the venture. Since then, the station has undergone more transformations of structure and purpose than any other project in NASA's history. Meanwhile, my reasons for supporting the station have also evolved. Nevertheless, I assert that the motives for the station's construction today are no less compelling, and possibly even more so, than the motives...
Kerrey is sincerely disappointed in Gingrich, a Democratic Senator said, because he has watched him shift over the past year from a private enthusiast of entitlement reform to one who accepted the analysis of Senate Republican leader Bob Dole, who believes that trying to freeze inflation adjustments in 1985 so angered the elderly lobby that it cost Republicans control of the Senate in 1986. In an interview with TIME, Kerrey would say only that if Gingrich is willing to duck Social Security's problems because they are 25 years away, "don't give any speeches saying how concerned...
...areas where racial-bloc voting (usually by whites) produces majority tyranny (usually over blacks). If Guinier had argued for cumulative voting as a better voting system as a way of improving the political representation of women, or even as a way of giving oppressed members of the gun-enthusiast and smoking minorities a greater political voice, Guinier would probably have been spared the degree of abuse she went through. But Guinier was worried about race. And it was Guinier's fixation on race that worried everyone else...
...Robert M. Parker Jr., is writer-publisher of a plain-as-plonk (no ads, no pictures) bimonthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. His trenchant opinions, as well as his still debated ratings of wine on a 100- point scale, are recycled into columns for the Prodigy computer network and Wine Enthusiast and Food & Wine magazines. They also feed his awesomely detailed Guide, which includes ahs and boos for 7,500 wines. Parker devotes more lineage to bottom-drawer bargains than he used to, so there is helpful advice here on $6 Cabernet Sauvignons from Chile and good-value Chardonnays from South...