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...College should reconsider partial randomization as a fair, moderate, balanced means of restoring diversity to Harvard, without capitulating to nonsensical compromise or extreme reaction. It also gives community members the responsibility for deciding their own fates...

Author: By Steven J. Newman, | Title: Don't Go All the Way | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

...upper third, we pick three `Prime' houses, or maybe three really bad houses if we have to pick our three non-choices. If we get a low lottery number, we should pick good houses if it's non-non-choice and three bad ones for regular part-partial-fractional-randomization. I guess the only way to be definite is to get a middle number and pick a low-advantage/non-offensive house...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: When Choice Isn't Anything | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...would be a toss up between partly-rational-Harmonization and completely-partial-free-non-choice," the interviewee said...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: When Choice Isn't Anything | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...only interesting aspects of the new housing systems are their names. I just hope everything sounds this good when my class finds out where they are living next year. We'll probably end up with "part-partial dissatisfaction" and "completely randomized...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: When Choice Isn't Anything | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...could not lobby city departments for one year after leaving the payroll, and would be permanently barred from acting as lobbyists or advocates on matters directly related to their government employment. Candidates for city office would be forbidden to raise campaign funds until nine months before an election, and partial public funding would be available for hopefuls who agreed to spending limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Where Angelenos Fear to Tread | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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