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...lottery, as a method of class selection, is anti-intellectual and anti-educational. It rewards neither interest in the course material nor background in the discipline nor intelligent academic planning. Instead, the only real prerequisite to getting into a lotteried class is the ability to sign the "entry form...
...lottery has the educational merit of corporal punishment. It must be abolished outright and replaced with another method, perhaps a method as cumbersome as written application. This is, after all, Harvard, not the University of Michigan. --Michael Fertik...
...coastal villagers started stripping nearshore reefs of giant clams, groupers and other large fish. Then the fishermen upped their productivity by a novel but frighteningly destructive practice: blasting the reefs with dynamite and scooping up the dead fish. Now they have adopted what may be the most insidious fishing method of all. Sustained by hoselike "hookahs" and portable air compressors, Philippine divers are hunting down big reef fish, stunning them with cyanide and hauling them to the surface alive. The practice allows traders to supply Chinese restaurants with the live fish their affluent customers covet. Meanwhile...
Humane traps will be the preferred method of catching wildlife when necessary. It will ban the hunting of bears and bobcats with packs of dogs. Hounding is downright cruel and unnecessary. Hounding will end, but bear and bobcat hunting will continue...
...Dole did not stop there. He fought against increases in excise taxes on wine, championed federal programs that promote American wine abroad and, in 1992, supported the Gallos' efforts to market as a version of champagne a bubbly wine that was vat produced, even though the real champagne method calls for fermentation in the bottle. With Dole's help, the Gallos celebrated their labeling victory the very next year...