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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...
Here are four. They should be enacted as a package. Together they'd raise $40 billion in taxes, cutting the deficit by nearly a third. The lower interest rates that would probably result would cut the deficit still further -- and keep the economy rolling to take some of the sting out of the tax hikes...
...result, the buoyant sense of new possibilities for the nation that is supposed to accompany a landslide was all but absent. Even the victor, standing before cheering supporters in Houston on election night, seemed mildly subdued after winning the office he has coveted all his political life. "To those who supported me, I will try to be worthy of your trust," he said, "and to those that did not, I will try to earn it, and my hand is out to you, and I want to be your President...
...Republican President before much of the nation had even digested dinner. Yet on this 200th anniversary of the election of George Washington, there was a palpable hesitancy as America cast its votes. Rather than ratifying the Reagan realignment, a nation of ticket splitters strengthened Democratic control of Congress. The result, whether conscious or not, is certain to exacerbate the deadlock of democracy over the deficit. By producing a Republican President pledged to resisting new taxes and a Democratic Congress adamant about safeguarding Social Security and Medicare, the sad legacy of Campaign '88 appears to be another endorsement of short-term...
...level with one another. The result of the Question 5 referendum won't in the least affect our congressional delegation, nor will it influence the Israeli coalition negotiations or the plans of the PLO this month. What might happen now that the referendum is in the past is that each "side" will shift its focus to the results and interpret them as vindication, and then everyone will go back to not thinking about the issue very intensely and not doing anything constructive...