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Tippett and Coquillon conceived of the CRC in January 2000 during a statistics project while conducting a random survey of 50 students...
When I was 10, I wrote in my diary a list of goals, mimicking my favorite fictional character Anastasia's habit of listing random things in notebooks. Goal number three was to "write a book by the time I turn 12." At the time, I felt like this was a fair goal. I'd just finished reading a novel about a 12-year-old girl who'd written a fiction book and become famous; I gave myself two full years to complete the task...
With five Ivy losses, the Crimson are realistically out of the Ivy title picture, although one never knows what other random thngs may happen in this now turbulent league. For instance, Columbia became the first team since 1989 to sweep Penn and Princeton in a weekend. That, combined with Yale's two victories, pulls the Elis into a tie for first...
...Bertelsmann gains a new currency to make acquisitions: its own shares. The 166-year-old company, owner of Random House publishers in the U.S., book clubs in Europe and a stable of newspapers and magazines worldwide, has always been privately owned by the reclusive Mohn family. Under the terms of the latest deal, however, Bertelsmann is acquiring 30% of RTL's shares-it already owns 37%-from Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, a Belgian investment firm owned by billionaires Albert Fr?re and Paul Desmarais. Instead of cash, GBL agreed to take 25.1% of Bertelsmann shares. More importantly, the deal allows...
Open Helen DeWitt's debut novel, The Last Samurai, to a random page, and you may think you've stumbled upon some sort of guide to the Tower of Babel. There are bits of Greek and Japanese and Inuit. And, more than once, like weird typographical errors, a list of stops on the London Underground. This is babble with a purpose, though, which is all revealed in the fullness of a very satisfying--not to mention rapturously received--novel about a single mother and her genius...