Word: randomly
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...current system of assignment of students to Houses should be replaced by one based on random assignment of roommate groups at the end of the freshman year, with controls on gender ratios enforced as of present...
Halfway through her powerfully affecting novel One True Thing (Random House; 289 pages; $22), Anna Quindlen pauses, swabs her forehead with a bandanna (so the wrung-out reader imagines) and sums up: "Our parents are never people to us, never, they're always character traits, Achilles' heels, dim nightmares, vocal tics, bad noses, hot tears, all handed down and us stuck with them...
Contemplating his own life in Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me (Random House; 568 pages; $25), Marlon Brando, aided by journalist Robert Lindsey, strikes a pose of injured innocence: he is a sweet-spirited, mischievous man- child who accidentally fell first into acting, then into fame and finally into self-contempt, and at 70 remains "an enigma to myself in a world that still bewilders me." That observation pretty well sums up the level of self- awareness (and self-revelation) he achieves in his book...
Irving's eighth novel, A Son of the Circus (Random House; 633 pages; $25), will not settle this debate; it may make it more heated. For this is unquestionably Irving's busiest book so far. Keeping track of all the nonstop, simultaneous developments on its pages feels a little like being at one of the circuses that pop up now and again in the story. To pay attention here probably means missing something going on over there...
Filmmakers may try, but no movie will match the real-life horror described in Richard Preston's The Hot Zone (Random House; 302 pages; $23). The book, due in stores later this month, is an expanded version of the New Yorker article that sent Hollywood scrambling...