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...filed with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), may seem like callous or misguided exploitation of public interest in the recent "Harvard prostitution scandal," it is in fact a serious attempt to attack what Brown-Beasley sees as procedural errors in his firing. The complaint is also hardly a random shot in the dark: since being dismissed as assistant to the director of Fiscal Services on August 4, Brown-Beasley has been fighting inside the University to reverse his dismissal. And his complaint to the OCR appears to be the first in a series of moves Brown-Beasley may make...
...idle after all? William Gass is not only a philosopher in the business of posing paradoxes but a writer (Omensetter's Luck, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country) to whom words matter. Blue, for instance. Gass notes that "a random set of meanings has softly gathered around the word the way lint collects." Gass would like to know why, and he is writer enough to make his inquiry far more entertaining than just another academic trip through the wild blue yonder...
...Henry IV, or whoever it was," according to its creator-all of them visibly risible. It is shaped like an elephant, in accordance, says Emett, with Livingstone's Law: "Memory may hold the door, but elephants never forget." Among its components are an eeny-meeny-miney-mo unit (random selection) and a card-punch system run by electrified woodpeckers...
...last month, Ebert and the deans of the 105 other American medical schools can breathe more easily. By treating the maldistribution of doctors as an evil that can be cured on an individual basis, the new legislation leaves the foundation of a national health care system to the random career choice of thousands of medical students. Beginning next year, each student who needs financial aid but does not qualify for a school scholarship can contract with the federal government for yearly loans, paying the sum back after graduation in the form of primary care practice in the National Health Service...