Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard astronomers familiar with the report say one member of the visiting committee told the department, "If you drew names at random from this list, you would have as good a or a better department than you have...
Five lucky fans will have the opportunity to win $50,000. That's right: five students will be chosen at random to take three shots from center ice at a hole in the goal approximately eight inches across...
...whom is Coming Out Day intended? Although the answer may seem obvious, the Harvard "festivities" are perplexing. What is the value of random, strident and possibly offensive posters? While it is true that existing conceptions of gender and sexual roles must be called into question, it is inappropriate to pursue this goal on Coming Out Day. To challenge an existing structure inherently entails conflict. For a closeted student, inner conflict is a daily reality. Why should he or she leave the safety of the closet in order to add external conflict to that already occurring in his or her mind...
...that's pretty much all the news from Random Hearts, a grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal. Ford is a Washington detective named Dutch Van Den Broeck; Scott Thomas is a Congresswoman named Kay Chandler. Both their spouses are killed in a plane crash, and he suspects--his obsessive nature and the habits of his profession driving him on--that they were lovers. She perhaps agrees, but prefers denial and resumption of her re-election campaign...
...that's what it's like reading Morris' new biography, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (Random House; 874 pages; $35). There is fact and there is fiction, and they are jumbled together. The facts are meticulously footnoted in an epic 115-page section at the end of the book. But so is the fiction. Morris has created detailed and utterly false notes to buttress the fanciful parts of his book, which feature a fictional character, also named Edmund Morris, who is a contemporary of Dutch Reagan's. That he called the book a "memoir" and not a biography...