Word: randoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much more, according to Bronson, who views life in the high-tech mecca as nothing less than an existential journey. From the opening chapter of The Nudist on the Late Shift (Random House; 248 pages; $25), when he gushes about "meeting young people at the proving point of their lives who risked it all and would either succeed wildly or go down tragically," Bronson is on a crusade to capture the romance of this seemingly soulless patch of Northern California...
They?d lived in Kosovo for generations, but that meant nothing when angry men in uniform went from door to door through their neighborhoods, beating them at random, dragging them off to be tortured, giving them five minutes to leave and torching their houses...
...hate crime are not there" -- but the later identification of a suspect from a white supremacist group indicated that they had narrowed their field of inquiry. Then came the car chase. Northwestern officials expressed outrage at the shootings? apparent racial component. "We are all sickened by these continual random acts of violence that are sweeping our country," said Northwestern Athletics Director Rick Taylor. That?s just what?s sickening about them -- they don?t seem to have been random...
Perhaps it is only fitting that Juneteenth (Random House; 368 pages; $25), Ralph Ellison's long-awaited second novel, almost 50 years in the making, would be published in 1999, the centennial year of Duke Ellington's birth. For Ellington and Ellison, along with the painter Romare Bearden, were practitioners of a shared aesthetic, three titans of an African-American modernism, embodying in their work elegance, eloquence and elan...
...your first impulse is to hit "delete" when an e-mail from some random student organization that you signed up for shows up in your inbox, then maybe that wasn't an organization you really wanted to devote time to. As your inbox grows, you'll be forced to sort out your life just as you sort your never-ending e-mail...