Word: randomization
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...currently on the random drug list for competitive swimming's international governing body. I'm perfectly willing to tell them where I am every day of the year, the exact hours I will be competing and training several months in advance...
...currently on the random drug list for competitive swimming's international governing body. I'm perfectly willing to tell them where I am every day of the year, the exact hours I will be competing and training several months in advance. Fine, making my training schedule available so I can be drug tested is a necessary evil that comes with modern athletics...
Remember when there was no Grafton? No random Tour de France detours through the Square? No black people? Ah, those were the days...
Watson himself does not speak in the first two novels (the second is Lost Man's River), which are told as conflicting reports by townspeople. Thus the concluding novel, Bone by Bone (Random House; 410 pages; $26.95), which is Watson's own first-person account, appears after 900 pages of teasing preamble. Because the author has advertised his main character as a monstrous enigma, he must now provide the monster. But Watson's villainy doesn't reach heroic stature. He is a likable bully and a good shot. Most notably, he is a brutal drunk. "When I give...
...classic view of business school is a Paper Chase-style classroom full of hyper-competitive white guys in stuffed shirts. The defining 1973 movie was actually based on life at Harvard Law School, but the image of memorizing case studies, cold calling (when a professor calls on students at random) and learning by intimidation is one the B school can't seem to shake. It's also an image that may turn off a lot of women. "Many women feel that M.B.A. programs offer a very chilly climate for them," says Judith Sturnick, director of the Office of Women...