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...might wonder how a “supposedly” random algorithm could result in so many ID’s sharing the same first three digits. Wamback explains that this recurrence of numbers has to do with the nature of Harvard’s custom-generated algorithm. “The first numbers issued back in 1974 began with 100, 200...through 900. Then, after all numbers with these three integers were used, numbers beginning with 101, 201...through 901 were issued.” Wamback assures FM that this algorithm is sufficiently random to protect the identities...
...house in upstate New York balancing a new baby, Ava, and her father, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's, by herself. Her husband had lasted nine weeks in the menage, then departed for the winter. But as Cohen records in The House on Beartown Road (Random House; 256 pages), a curious symmetry emerged out of the chaos. As one of her charges misplaced words, the other found them for the first time. "They skirt language in opposite directions," she writes. "Daddy mixes fragments of words together to make new ones. Ava, speaking in almost-words, a sloppy...
...family's privately held, worldwide media conglomerate, based in GUTERSLOH, GERMANY, includes publisher Random House, a majority stake in TV network RTL and the BMG music group...
Reinhard Mohn inherited the modest German publishing house that his great-grandfather founded in 1835, and he turned it into a global media giant called Bertelsmann. Today that firm owns book publisher Random House, the BMG music group and a majority stake in the European TV network RTL, among other properties. Mohn, 81, stepped back from active management a decade ago, but the company's transition to outside executives has not been smooth...
...David Woodberry, the College housing officer who runs the lottery, says that regardless of childhood home, legacy or attempted alumni intervention, the process is completely random. He says the process controls only for the sex of the students in order to achieve balanced Houses...