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JANE'S ADDICTION: JANE'S ADDICTION (Warner Bros.). This will dice your eardrums and deep-fry your brain in the bargain. Assaultive, tough, unsparing rock from a Los Angeles band with a punk foundation and guitars like trip- hammers...
...want to hear the music of Satchmo or view the paintings of Rothko for Core credit this semester, your fate may be determined by a roll of the dice...
Paulos swiftly explodes that notion by discussing stock-market scams, batting averages, newspaper psychics, fraudulent medical treatments, election polls and the reasons why blackjack is a better gambler's game than dice. Those who break into a sweat at the mention of calculus or plane geometry can relax. This elegant little survival manual is brief, witty and full of practical applications. Best of all, it has no quiz at the end, and as Paulos generously admits, the "occasional difficult passage can be ignored with impunity...
...Roll the Dice: Holy Cross gambled on fourth-down four times Saturday and came up with two first downs and two touchdowns...
...presumably been our God-anointed patch of green appears to be, for millions of us, a frozen tundra." Yet the author cannot maintain a long face. After repeatedly exposing the country's down side, he expresses his own second thoughts on the American Dream. He decides to roll the dice with America's eternal resource: the altruistic young. They "may reflect something . . . unfashionable for the moment and thus hidden away, something 'fearful': compassion. Or something even more to abjure: hope...