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Will he then roll the dice? He is certainly not saying now. Neither is anyone close to him. Powell and his friends agree that one important vote will come from Alma, the general's wife of 32 years. What is her verdict? "Alma's not opining," says a Powell friend. "But her name isn't Sherman." If elected, she will serve...
...bloody 20th century. Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy. So is some of Conroy's rhetoric. "Through no preference or selection of our own," begins one chapter, "the graduating class of 1966, in high schools all over America, found ourselves cast like dice across the velvet-covered gambling tables of history ... the best we could do was cover our eyes and ears and genitalia like pangolins or armadillos and make sure that our soft underbellies were not exposed for either inspection or slaughter...
...oppositions to randomization so universal? Because students know that sharing of experience is only possible in an environment where there is a balance of likeness and difference, diversity and community, and where there is a commonality that is a living organism, not an artificial assemblage conjured into existence by dice-rolls. The students deserve to be treated in their housing choices, as in their other choices, as the adults that they are. The consensus is clear: total randomization is a disastrous mistake, and the decision must be reversed. Philip R. Munger '95 John D. Shephered...
About 25 students carried signs with slogans reading "No dice throw," "If you choose, we lose," "Don't test chaos theory on us" and "82% can't be ignored...
...Dusek, a spokesman for the Texas Attorney General's office, warns that some companies have misrepresented themselves, or swallowed up-front fees and then done nothing. Agrees Wayne Doss, director of Los Angeles County's Bureau of Family Support Operations: "There are people without the appropriate backgrounds playing dice with other people's money." Debbie Kline, of the independent Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (aces), calls the private agencies "vultures." And aces president Geraldine Jensen suggests that anyone who can afford to pay 30% of their support in fees could hire a lawyer: "At least then...