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With non-ordered choice, approximately 25 percent of students receive their first choice house. With enhanced choice, 45 percent (actually 43.75 percent) is the mathematical limit of students who could receive receive their first choice, and this number is only true under the asinine assumption that students will equally request every house...
That means that no one will be put in a house with a character they dislike. Second, a group composed of a certain type of person could request an unpopular house and be nearly guaranteed of getting it. This would allow for the potential creation of stereotypes in houses that were previously randomized. Surely it can be seen that in no way will enhanced choice foster diversity...
...Legislative Affairs, coached Republican Congressman Gerald B. Solomon on how to word a Sept. 29 letter that would provide State with a fig leaf of official justification for a search of Clinton's files. The next day Elizabeth Tamposi, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, seized on Solomon's "request" and a handful of press inquiries to justify a rushed two-day hunt through 10 sets of confidential records in Washington, London and Oslo. Funk's report makes clear that Mullins informed Baker of the searches on or around Oct. 1. When the searches proved futile, Tamposi and her colleagues suggested...
...This case is an extremely strong case of discrimination," said Margaret A. Burnham, who is representing plaintiffs Milton J. Benjamin and Joan Wallace-Benjamin, the parents of one of the students at the school "This [the dismissal request] is an effort to delay the matter...
...untouched even as applied research was strengthened. But the money isn't there. When the Bush Administration earlier this year submitted a 1993 budget that would have increased science spending only 6.5%, to $28 billion, Congress for the first time in recent memory actually whittled down the Administration's request -- to a 2.3% increase. The budget freezes spending at many agencies, including NASA, and cuts NIH's funds (in inflation-adjusted dollars) 0.1%. Moreover, appropriations for some science agencies came attached with warnings that, in the future, simply requesting more money will no longer be considered a realistic solution...