Word: randomized
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Last summer, the course released a list of their choices of the top 100 novels of the 20th century concurrently with the Random House Books publication of a similar list...
...Last year, Random House put together a list of the top 100 novels of the 20th century," Hess explained. "They asked the Radcliffe course to also put together a hundred, they were kind of competitive. This year, we just asked the students to pick their top ten favorite books...
...think it will get as much publicity," Hess said. "Last year was the big story. We did our own list using the same 500 books that the random house modern library used, and so there were 2 lists out there and they were so different that a lot of people found it fascinating...
...Tamils spent the 1950s and 1960s protesting peacefully, following the satyagraha method of peace pioneered by Mahatma Gandhi. The police spent the 1950s and 1960s beating them up. During the 1970s, the LTTE formed. In 1983, open fighting began. My parents grew up in a perpetual state of emergency--random police checkpoints, people disappearing, arrests and imprisonment without cause, questioning without reasonable suspicion...
...harmless, but building a sort of disastrous momentum until the weight of the accumulated errors brings the plane down. Similarly, there was nothing especially portentous on the final day of Kennedy's life that led, ineluctably, to tragedy. It's only in hindsight that it becomes apparent how the random eddies of those last 24 hours carried Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law to disaster. The awful thing about eddies, of course, is that if only one of them had flowed another way, that disaster might just as easily have been averted...