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Have you ever picked up The Crimson, looked at an article or a picture and wondered why on earth it was in the paper? Take, for example, the random picture of a protest in Vancouver that was in last week's newspaper. Or Monday's shot of Whoopi Goldberg waving her hand. One reader referred to these types of pictures as "filler." I think that "filler" is a very good description...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Filling The Crimson | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

Once you have the list, try to open the files from Word, and see what you come up with. Because the files are temporary, they often have a lot of random-looking junk in them. If you see this, try scrolling down some, and you should be able to get most of your paper back...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Paper Lost? Tricks For Recovery | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

Indeed, the ceremony missed no opportunity to laugh at scientific ironies. Periodic "Heisenberg Certainty Lectures" interrupted the evening's program. These 30-second lectures addressed a random topic of the speaker's choice...

Author: By Eran A. Mukamel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ten Academics Honored With Ig Nobel Prizes | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

Second, it is neither random nor unproblematic that a majority of the council always has been white and male, out of balance with the College's gender and ethnic make-up. There is nothing about being a white male that makes a student a better representative; as such, the skewed proportions are the simple result of the historic marginalization of females and non-white students from the council's business, and from American society as a whole. It will take a concerted effort by the council's leadership to remedy the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still Too Few Women, Minorities on Council | 10/9/1997 | See Source »

...human capacity for insult, denigration and blasphemy seems utterly boundless. University of Tennessee research associate professor Jonathan E. Lighter demonstrated this in 1994 with the first volume of his Historical Dictionary of American Slang (A through G). Volume II (Random House; 736 pages; $65)--beginning with H, a euphemism for hell, and ending 10,000 definitions later at the letter O with Ozzie, an Australian--once again reflects Americans' ingenious talent for verbal invention as well as Lighter's indefatigable scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: KISKEEDEE? LOOK IT UP! | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

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