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...simple tasks, the College will slip softly from your mind only to return for a few fleeting seconds twice a semester when your secretary cancels your office hour. Here is your initiation itinerary, please be no more than seven minutes late to any event (no, seven is not a random number...
...surprise in continuing attacks on Serb civilians in Kosovo by Albanian extremists. This was not the first, nor will it be the last. But what was significant about this attack was the technique - a remote-controlled antitank mine buried in the asphalt. This goes way beyond the concept of "random revenge attacks." It required a high level of technical sophistication and organization. And that means it was a message to KFOR, too - that the NATO-led peacekeeping force is also vulnerable. Those who carried out this attack could just as easily have blown up a KFOR vehicle...
With the new "High School Redesign" process championed by Mayor Anthony Galluccio that began last spring, we have seen a potential for better results for all students at CRLS. Among other changes implemented this year, students were assigned through a semi-random process to the different schools rather than allowed to choose among them, and the schools' curricula and teaching staff were standardized. This move increased the diversity of the students, both racially and with regard to achievement level, ending the segregation of more academically talented students in certain schools away from the general high school population. This positive step...
...involve being a happy pig or an unhappy Socrates. But these decisions are no more (and no less) complex than a thousand other ethical concerns. To refrain from them simply because the buzzword "genetic engineering" is involved does not guarantee a child an "open future" but rather a random future, a Russian roulette future. No child is made more "free" if his or her hair color, number of limbs or even sexual orientation is chosen by chance rather than design...
Beware of novels that allow the reader to open at random to sentences such as this: "Without any signs to steer me, I could only keep plodding along into the uncertainty of my future." The plodder here is one Dominick Pindle, a Massachusetts teen who makes the big, cinematic oopsy of falling for his father's other woman. Imagine the consequences, the confrontations! Sadly, you would probably do a better job than John Searles has in Boy Still Missing (Morrow; 292 pages; $25), a back-to-the-early-'70s drama of family misery and social devolution. It's an action...