Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...POLITICS OF RICH AND POOR by Kevin Phillips (Random House; $19.95). Republicans beware! A proven political prognosticator foresees a populist backlash in the '90s against the greedfest of the '80s. Compellingly argued, but why isn't anyone bothering to vote...
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...Random House; 372 pages...
...might not think Jewett the sort who would buck tradition. But lately, he has done just that, spearheading efforts to change Harvard's annual housing lottery to make the system more random. Last year, he raised cries for blood among first-year students by pushing through a system of "nonordered choice" in which rising sophomores are randomly assigned to one of the four upperclass Houses they select on their housing form...
...this fictive treatment, the protagonist is called Kristen Cates, but all resemblances to the author are strictly intentional. The upright Texas girl gets hooked in order to trap a dealer, backslides into the nightmare underworld of pushers and addicts, and finally surfaces in another kind of purgatory: jail. Rush (Random House; 260 pages; $18.95), Wozencraft's tale of temptation, fall and rehab, sometimes gropes for expression, as if the recollections were too painful for words. In every sense, this should make one hell of a film...