Word: non
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...also wonder why Katz says that endorsing the non-ordered choice proposal would be caving in. Most people, including Katz it seems, don't fully understand what non-ordered choice would mean for them. If we had non-ordered choice with three choices, the only difference between it and the present system would be that around percent fewer of the students would get their first choice (33 percent instead of near 50 percent) and 20 percent more of the students would get their third choice (33 percent instead of around 10 percent). Also, non-ordered choice has an added benefit...
What the UC can do, though, is try to convince the house masters to make a smaller change. I think that non-ordered choice would be preferable to what seems to be the main alternative, 100 percent randomization. Many of the house masters have said that they are interested in finding an agreeable middle ground. The way for the UC to do that is to endorse a consensus proposal and call for the house masters to choose it instead of 100 percent randomization. James M. Harmon...
Czechoslovakia now joins the astonishing avalanche of change that is overtaking Eastern Europe. Poland was the first to move, electing a non- Communist government in August. In the past six weeks, upheavals have taken place in the Hungarian, East German and Bulgarian Communist parties. Nor were events in Prague the only remarkable developments that took place last week...
...package is part of an attempt to solvea 1990 fiscal year budget deficit now estimated at$825 million. The House earlier this fall passed abill that combined cuts, savings and non-taxrevenues to lower the deficit by about $350million...
...support Israel first and foremost because it is a Jewish state. I have never hidden that fact, nor do I ever intend to. I resent Larew's implication that this position is somehow embarassing or morally reprehensible or that it requires a justification that his non-zealotous position does not. Nobody has the right to claim that somehow I am less of a loyal American because of my commitment to Israel. Every American, regardless of other ethnic or national ties, is equally American. That said, I would fight to the ends of the earth to make sure Israeli democracy continues...