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...accompanying book, Diane Arbus: Revelations (Random House) includes a detailed chronology of Arbus' life that was prepared with the assistance of her daughter Doon, who controls the Arbus estate and who long refused to allow writers to use Arbus pictures to accompany their work unless they submitted it first to her for approval. But Diane Arbus is no longer shocking in the way she was 30 years ago. To begin with, the world has changed. (A man with tattoos on his face? Take any bus.) More than that, we've absorbed the lessons that Arbus taught. If she still appears...
...Koala lays random and weird vocal samples over his instrumental samples in such a witty way that hearing about the territorialism of the koala and “the French-Canadian province, Quebec” is probably more entertaining than anything Quebec itself has to offer. Similarly, “Robochacha” opens with—ostensibly—a high school cheerleader from the 1950s trying to get a robot to show her what he’s working with on the dance floor...
...easy to imagine how some Iraqis would chafe in the presence of the occupying force. Conservative Muslims have expressed anger at the random raids by coalition soldiers who search their houses and, in some of the biggest perceived outrages, rummage through women's wardrobes. Iraqis also resent the roundups that detain civilians, including many innocents, for weeks on end. U.S. troops have fallen into lethal fire fights, like the one in Karbala last Friday, when they clashed with religious groups. And they are alienating poor farmers like Abdel Fattah Naef, who once maintained lush orchards in a town 60 miles...
Those who took the test in its early phase were volunteers rather than a random sample of undergraduates. But the preliminary results, which Sternberg presented in August at an APA conference, were dramatic. The Rainbow Project was nearly twice as successful at predicting students' first-year college GPAs as their SAT scores had been. The College Board, which produces the SATs, is funding Sternberg's research because the ability to predict college performance from a test--any test--hasn't improved much in 50 years, says Wayne Camara, the board's vice president of research...
Perhaps, but the main reason I’ve never played poker is that I haven’t accepted the element of randomization/luck/fate involved in every card game. Poker requires you not merely to accept, but to enjoy and revel in the random distribution of the cards. This, I think, is the crux of my frustration. If you’re not able to accept the cards you’ve been given, if you’re not able to rejoice when fortune throws you a good hand even though you had nothing to do with...