Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, the housing structure at Yale College sets an admirable example. First-years are placed in diverse groups upon matriculation--as at Harvard--but Yale also gives them random residential college assignments. In addition, they live in first-year halls separated by their residential college associations. Yale's brand of randomization has not precipitated a huge move off-campus (well over 90 percent still live in the colleges), nor has it weakend ethnic organizations...
...random lottery may be used to keep theselection process more democratic. "We're nottrying to get the 30 best artists in the freshmanclass. We just want 30 people who are reallyinterested in arts, even if they've never doneanything before," said Saunders...
...publisher did. The book's authentic popularity has been boosted by an aggressive publicity campaign. Random House sent Berendt on an unusually extensive 38-city media tour and several times has sent him to Savannah to shepherd reporters on a personalized author's tour. Cathie Matthews, a real-estate broker from Little Rock, Arkansas, saw the promotional ingenuity up close. When she bought the 400,000th copy of the book in December, inside she found a hand-written note from Berendt, telling her to call Random House for a free trip to Savannah. She paid her visit last week. Berendt...
...songs are both more whimsical and more interesting. Dumb Fun, a vertiginous number with sporadic bass-guitar spasms, was composed by stringing together semi-random passages from a notebook of ideas Hatfield had been keeping for about six months. "Had a heart by accident," goes one line of the song. Another track, the idiosyncratic Fleur de Lys, is sung entirely in French...