Word: randoms
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...stoop and eyeing a small triangular wooden trophy case on her living room floor amid a stinking pile of family belongings. The box contains the flag that had draped her husband's casket six years ago. It is an ironic coincidence, a reporter's happenstance, brought about by a random turn down a neighborhood street that looks like so many others on the island - lifeless homes with leafless, saltwater-poisoned trees, battered fences hung with soggy towels, shattered windows, and front yards filled with piles of wet carpet, soaked clothes, moldy pots and pans, beach chairs and books, all water...
...this political categorization would be mere speculation if it weren’t for the content of the trailer. In just one minute and 44 seconds there are: two jokes disparaging homosexuals, a longer riff on Muslims, a scene in which Gary Coleman portrays a modern slave, one random shot of Trace Adkins in front of an American flag shouting “This is the greatest country in the whole wide world,” one suicide bomber joke, and two ridiculous quotes from the fake Michael Moore (“I love America and that?...
...Term limits have roots in ancient Greece, where beginning in the 6th century B.C. many Athenian officials were elected by random lottery and permitted to serve only a year. Some of their Roman counterparts were also limited to serving just a single term...
...wonderfully inventive way. In previous studies, academics have looked at variables like years of education and the effects of outside forces such as nondiscrimination policies. But gender was always the constant. What if it didn't have to be? What if you could construct an experiment in which a random sample of adults unexpectedly changes sexes before work one day? Kristen Schilt, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and Matthew Wiswall, an economist at New York University, couldn't quite pull off that study. But they have come up with the first systematic analysis of the experiences of transgender...
Left in Dark Times By Bernard-Henri Levy Random House; 233 pages...