Word: randomized
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...students. But that shouldn’t deter you, necessarily. FM has cooked up a list of student organizations that someone who doesn’t actually go here might want to try out. We promise that every one of these activities is more fun than chilling in a random d-hall. Harvard Pre-Medical Society: We hear they’re doing amazing things with DNA testing today. The Gamut: This all-poetry magazine should be receptive to tearjerkers about a misunderstood unicorn who becomes a societal outcast because of one alleged act. Or multiple alleged acts. Harvard Outing...
...colors arrived in the Coliseum and the crowd stood and went silent. When the flags arrived at the back of the arena, the crowd sat. Very distraught relatives of the dead were brought to random open seats around the auditorium. They were not fancy people. Some were in jeans, some in sunglasses; the kids carried backpacks. Most of the grieving families consisted of multiple generations: parents, siblings and grandparents. One very sad couple, fighting back tears, arrived alone and was shown to their seats. There was the uniform clatter of seats as Bush came in and the crowd stood...
...Children is written in Tolkien's full-on high heroic style, which is light on the characterization and sometimes hilariously dorky. (An example, chosen more or less at random: Túrin's helmet "was made of grey steel adorned with gold, and on it were graven runes of victory. A power was in it that guarded any who wore it from wound or death, for the sword that hewed it was broken, and the dart that smote it sprang aside." Et cetera. The book also comes with some pseudo-Blakean illustrations by Alan Lee.) But once you surrender...
...Internet trumped radio in the case of Imus’ comments, and in pretty much every other way, too. It’s a quick YouTube search—not a re-broadcast at a random time on a random radio station—that allows anyone to hear the comments themselves. The radio is where the controversy started, but it will surely finish elsewhere...
This tragedy has left me vacillating between sadness and a wrenching sickness in my stomach. It has made me think about how fragile our communities are, how vulnerable even to random and solitary predators, let alone organized terrorists. At the same time, it has also reinvigorated my faith in another, much-maligned community: the digital...