Word: thems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard led for the majority of the period thanks to strong defense led by junior netminder Gillian D'Souza, who came up with a dozen saves in the period, many of them from point-blank range. But Harvard's defense would not be able to hold up all night, especially...
The defensive trio played agressively all night. The Wildcats eventually wore them down, tallying three times in the second period and adding five more in the final period.
But more fundamentally, non-ordered choice will fail because it will allow students who would ordinarily not live in the stereotyped houses to continue to avoid them. After all, a perennially popular first-choice house is "Anywhere but Adams, Eliot or Kirkland."
An entirely random process would assure that diversity is more than a frequently-trumpeted virtue. It would put the athlete, academic, musician, artist, political activist in the same house, allowing them to bounce their ideas off each other.
In retrospect, the choice of the word "defend" was poor. But I stand by my accusation that Dershowitz is an inveterate apologist for Israel. My point was not whether Dershowitz approves of human rights violations, but whether he rationalizes them. And indeed he does.