Word: free
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More importantly, setting aside 25 percent of the houses for random assignment will act as a blow to free choice. Students are rational, mature actors, and should be trusted to make their own decisions about where they live--the same rights adults outside Harvard have. Denying freshmen this right of free action is to treat them as irresponsible children who cannot understand the consequences of their own decisions...
Completely randomizing house assignments--which will probably be the eventual result of changing the free choice system--will homogenize the Harvard community. The diversity of the undergraduate student body is produced by the individuality of its discrete units: the houses. By implementing a random lottery, not only house character--but the diversity of the undergraduate community itself--will be destroyed...
...advertisement ran in the "Directory of Experts, Authorities and Spokespersons," subtitled the "Talk Show Guest Directory." Publisher and Editor Mitchell P. Davis said that the directory is distributed free of charge to more than 6000 media outlets, including the "Phil Donahue Show" and "Late Night With David Letterman...
Despite the activity, few believe that in the end the military will allow truly free elections; preparing for that possibility, the opposition parties say they will not take part in any balloting under current repressive conditions. "We are trying to change the government without bloodshed," says Moe Thi Zun, 26, head of the Democratic Party for New Society. "If the government won't accept that, we will have to try something else, but we will not retreat...
...Connecticut couple has discovered another way besides the lottery to convert numbers into dollars. Hank and Marie Oscar knew that there was something unusual about 800-243-2546, the toll-free number that AT&T had randomly assigned to their video-gear company, Oscarvision Systems. On the telephone dial, their number spells CHECK-IN, which they first realized eight years ago when a hotel called and asked for the rights to their number. But the cash offer was too tiny to bother with, so the Oscars held on to their digits even though the spelling had no connection with video...