Word: randomly
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...tale spinner. He usually writes about outsiders: artists, adventurers and dreamers on the run from conformity. This partly explains the years Theroux lived abroad. Now an ex-expatriate, he is apparently still edgy enough about the U.S. to live near the exits, in Massachusetts and Hawaii. Millroy the Magician (Random House; 437 pages; $24) gives us a good idea...
Undoubtedly, the Undergraduate Council suffers under the fetters of what The Crimson called "dead weight." However, by ignoring success stories like the Class of 1997 Formal, The Crimson portrays but part of the picture. The distribution of dead weight on the Council is far from random. In fact, it is concentrated in the cluster of members who served on last year's Council. The cause, I believe, is not so much "seniorities," as UC President Carey Gabay suggested, as "apathy;" an apathy that is an understandable byproduct of serving on a Council that seemed to accomplish too little and bicker...
...proper avenue for criminal justice is through courts of law, and only those found guilty of actually committing the crime can be held accountable. Vigilantism is clearly forbidden, as are random acts of retaliation against innocents. Even in a state of war, children and those who are not physically fighting cannot be targets. This goes beyond the West's conception of fair war; Western cities have many times come under severe bombing resulting in civilian casualties...
...first-years scratch their heads over what four houses to list in next week's housing lottery, the once-heated debate over making housing assignments totally random has become all but nonexistent...
...mysteries, as opposed to real-life ones, is that the culprit is always "here tonight." Which may be one reason why the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding story has struck such a chord. Kerrigan's attacker was not, as most people assumed at first, a crazed fan or a random nut. The crime appears to have been -- just like TV! -- an elaborately plotted effort by another skater's camp to eliminate a rival. Any fan of Murder, She Wrote can recognize the motive. And not even Columbo could have cracked the case faster...