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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More importantly, setting aside 25 percent of the houses for random assignment will act as a blow to free choice. Students are rational, mature actors, and should be trusted to make their own decisions about where they live--the same rights adults outside Harvard have. Denying freshmen this right of...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Freedom of Choice | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Twenty-one months ago, an unknown Michael Dukakis ventured into Iowa to tell voters there why he should be President. Today his answer remains inchoate. The failing of his candidacy has more to do with the candidate himself than with poor strategy, inept aides, stylized debates, TV commercials or even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of A Disaster | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

I am finally beginning to understand how it is that average Americans and governmental agencies can so steadfastly refuse to contemplate rational, comprehensive action regarding the worst inequities in our society.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

The real insult to democracy, it seems to me, is to treat it as some sort of tennis game where victory is the definitive judgment on the players. And the real insult to the electorate is the patronizing attitude that it is a sort of lumbering collective beast, immune from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Democracy Can Goof | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

"We refuse to be calm and rational," said ZIPorganizer Aya de Leon '88-'89. She said that thegroup provides a fun and useful way to vent angerat the clubs' positions.

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: New Group Uses Humor, Feminism to Fight Clubs | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

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