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...another factor--trepidation--underlies the College's reluctance to tamper with the "right" to a preferential lottery. To varying degrees, most officials agree that, in the words of one top administrator, "there are people who are missing some kinds of experiences because they don't have equal access to people of different kinds"--thanks to the impetus to clique-forming provided by a lottery based on choice. Yet because of administration perceptions that students would fight a more stringent system every step of the way, "everyone would prefer students to have freedom of choice...
...NEED NOT be that way. Harvard could learn much from the experiences of its two Ivy League rivals with comparable systems, Yale and Princeton. Those experiences prove not only the merits of more random techniques of apportioning students, but also that, politically, administrators can tamper with preferential housing and live to tell about...
Crowley speculated that eventually doctors may be able to use the drug to "tamper with the natural growth process." People who produce insufficient natural growth hormones, or who failed to grow normally because of kidney disease, malnutrition, or other disorders, might be able to use the drug to "catch up," he said...
Legislature attempts to tamper with the Tregor bill are counterproductive, he says; if it emerges from the State House open to legal challenge, then investors won't go near the plan. The "chamber is trying to help out the relationship between private and public sectors," he said...
...differ with Pendleton's conservative views, he is a proven administrator capable of running the agency. Nonetheless, some of Pendleton's new colleagues, three of them Democrats, are uneasy. "Most of us assume that we will be fired too," says one present commissioner. "To have an Administration tamper with the makeup of the commission after all these years is disturbing...