Word: randomized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS by Paul Kennedy (Random House; $24.95). Bad news. A respected historian argues that all dominant nations are fated to founder, and now it may be the U.S.'s turn...
...Note--In houses other than Eliot, students receive a random lottery number and select their own room. The masters' assistants assign rooms to sophomores...
...style, now competing with running shoes as hot dress-down items in New York City and Washington, is spreading ever westward. When Herman Ruether, interim director of the Chicago-based Palestine Human Rights Campaign, heard that the kaffiyeh was becoming fashionable, he said, "I started talking to people at random." The results of Ruether's informal poll: only three out of ten people cited politics as their reason for wearing the scarf. He adds, however, that during the most & recent episodes of violence in Israeli-occupied areas, his office received a large number of calls from Americans sympathetic...
...currently live under a lottery system which is designed to give students a choice in where they will live for their years as upperclassmen. While not every student can live in the house of his choice and some unfortunates must be randomly assigned, approximately 80 percent end up living in their first choice house. In a student poll conducted by the Crimson several years ago, undergraduates approved of this system, and not one which placed students in houses at random...
...more than 11 million homosexuals nationwide, such random attacks are increasingly commonplace. According to gay-rights groups, hate-motivated assaults have nearly tripled in recent years. In New York City, reported attacks on gays, probably a tiny fraction of the total, jumped from 176 in 1984 to 517 last year. While homosexuals have always been a target of abuse, gay activists attribute the rising violence to the AIDS epidemic and a conservative backlash. "AIDS has provided a green light to the bashers and the bigots," says Kevin Berrill of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "It's a convenient...