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...AFTER READING THE MANUscript of a novel submitted by Joan Collins, Random House editor Joni Evans wrote a letter to the actress saying, among other things, "My biggest problems have to do with asking, 'Could this be real?'--and thinking it could not be." Problems? What problems? A steamy novel by a glamorous celebrity that read as if it were not "real"? Faced with such an object, many editors and publishers would have immediately ordered up a dust jacket and a print run of 200,000 copies...
...They were kind of random," said Michael W. Chen...
...yourself up to fate. On a campus that is known to be less than conducive to coupling, let's thank the council for helping us to cherish the one week of the year when we won't need to wait for Thursday night at the Grille to exalt in random romance...
Under the new policy, rooming groups can specify two houses in which they do not wish to live but face random placement in the others. But groups of two or fewer can apply to join friends in another house...
...that time of the semester again. Yes, we know it's not pleasant. But it seems that by some sort of natural necessity Mother Harvard is semi-annually made to spew forth students from a number of her Core courses based on nothing more than random selection. In order to limit class size, Harvard professors are often forced to select their pupils by lottery. The unfortunate victims of these lotteries emerge from the shopping period feeling rejected and unsatiated in their selection of courses...