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Whistles and Whips. Most of Xenakis' ear-jarring music is an extension in sound of the calculus of probability, one of whose basic concepts is Bernoulli's law of large numbers. It says, in effect, that the occurrence of any chance event-the roll of a seven in dice, for example, or the random collision of stray molecules in the atmosphere-is more likely to conform to the prescribed statistical odds with each successive attempt. To Xenakis, this mathematical absolute has profound philosophical meaning: it implies that the changing structure of certain events in life, including the sounds...
...walkouts, ordered a strike of the 46,500 workers. Then leaders of the two top unions reversed themselves and fell into step with the shop stewards. Ford appealed to the courts, but in vain. As the judge said, labor contracts in Britain are "binding only in honor," not in law...
Three hundred first-year law students met in Austin Hall yesterday afternoon to air grievances and begin circulation of a petition demanding reform of the school's grading system...
Yesterday, they urged the adoption of temporary measures to minimize the deficiencies of the present system. Moves for the reform originated with a report by first-year law students on grades issued three weeks...
...second proposal calls for the elimination of all public use of evaluations of first-year exams. The students are requesting that these records not be used for membership on the Law Review, the Board of Student Advisors and in Legal Aid. Another aspect of the proposal would prohibit use of these evaluations by prospective employers...