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...philosophy professor, whose name is Amalfitano, recreates one of Marcel Duchamp's ready-made artworks: he hangs up a geometry textbook outside his house by a string so that the elements can gradually corrupt and destroy its tidy diagrams. He contemplates the book for hours as random, meaningless, non-Euclidean reality invades it, forcing it to register the presence of a world it cannot describe. It is not one of Bolaño's most successful digressions, but it is an excellent metaphor for 2666 itself: "Images with no handhold," the professor says of those ruined pages, "images freighted with...
...happened to Elephantom. Pianist, songwriter and secondary vocalist Matthew A. Aucoin ’12 said when the group’s guitarist’s string broke, they had to beg the audience for a replacement guitar. Finally, the kindness of strangers came through.“Some random person handed us a guitar,” Aucoin said.Drawing on a wide variety of instrumentation, including trumpet, piano, guitar, and bass, the band has been playing around Boston since 2006. Half of the six members are still in high school, and the rest go to college locally. Aucoin said...
This New England veggie has been popping up almost daily in d-halls with completely random names like Long Island Cheese Squash or Blue Hubbard with Sage and Cider, bringing a much-needed touch of restaurant snobbery to the food line...
...recent years, exit pollsters have received better training to help them stick to the random selection. This is not easy to do with a large labor force that works for you only one day a year. But it may also help that exit pollsters now include some older people - which may entice more older voters to participate...
Still, the challenge of choosing precincts that accurately reflect the broader region remains immense, as does the quest to pull a truly random sample of voters. The 2006 congressional election included a bias for the Democrats once again, and several of the Democratic exit polls during the primary contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton ended up being wrong, even though some of these reforms were already in place. Still, for this election at least, the exit polls do not appear to have gone too far astray...