Word: coulds
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Alexis de Tocqueville neatly outlined every consequence of randomization 133 years ago in his immortal Old Regime and the French Revolution. As the book clearly shows, randomization could be the crucial step that turns University Hall into the greatest center of despotic power since the Parisian mob stormed Versailles...
Central administration, writes Tocqueville, explains "why it was that an uprising of the people could overwhelm so abruptly and decisively a monarchy that for so many centuries had successfully withstood so many onslaughts and, on the very eve of its downfall, seemed inexpungible even to the men who were about to destroy...
...Crimson (5-7-1 overall, 4-1 Ivy) could only break through once against Yale (3-10 overall, 1-5 Ivy), but that was all it needed to top the Elis, 1-0. A win over Princeton in its final Ivy game Saturday in Princeton, N.J. and a Columbia victory against or tie with Brown earns Harvard the Ivy title...
...brought forth a generation of fierce reformers and a new brigade of muckraking reporters, like Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell. It was Jacob A. Riis, a New York City newspaper photographer working the police beat, who first recognized how photography could be enlisted in the cause. His job frequently took him through Manhattan's most wretched and dangerous districts, places that the Danish-born Riis knew well from the desperate years after he had arrived in the U.S. in 1870, when he had slept in doorways and picked his dinner from trash bins. In 1887 he came back with...
...with those bursts of flash, Riis literally brought light into some of the darkest corners of American life. In the process, he discovered another of what would become one of the most characteristic missions of the camera. It could be pointed at misery. The trap for facts could be the trumpet of justice...