Word: randomly
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Seniors are still trying to do it all. During these past few weeks, our overachieving Harvard mentality has prevented us from leaving stones unturned, chores unfinished and goals unfulfilled. Students are "bumping into" potential senators in "random" places, eager to cement "lasting friendships." Shopping carts filled with food from the Kahiki Cafe zoom out of Loker as the last cents of Crimson Cash disappear. The Widener stacks reek of bodily fluids. Several sorry individuals are still trying out for Crimson Key. And John Harvard is more pissed than usual...
Robinson has criticized the Chinese government for incidents of random detention and torture, and would like to visit Tibet in her upcoming trip to China in September. China invaded the territory in 1950 and has kept it under a tight grip since a 1959 rebellion...
...last week, seated at her regular table in her favorite Manhattan restaurant, La Caravelle, where she wore a dark green Armani pantsuit, drank San Pellegrino water and filled us in on reaction to her new book, Here but Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and the New Yorker (Random House; 240 pages; $25), which has had most of the New York literary world buzzing for the past several weeks...
When one reads the title of William Finnegan's Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (Random House; 421 pages; $26), a journalist's sampler of youth on the margins in the 1990s, one wants to ask, "Harder compared to what?" To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression? Or to growing up almost anywhere in the developing world today? In 1998, in an America presided over by the quintessential Mark Twain character Bill Clinton (an irrepressible trickster out of Arkansas with late-adolescent hormones), the Dow noses up toward 10,000, and this spring...
...terminal metastatic breast cancer. Nocera wants to try Herceptin, an anticancer drug now in clinical trials. But Herceptin is expensive, and the manufacturer, Genentech, isn't making much beyond what it needs for testing. It currently gives the extra Herceptin to a limited number of women, chosen at random by a computer, and Nocera's number hasn't come up yet. "My fear," she says, "is that it's all about money and that these companies don't need us if we don't meet their criteria...