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Returning students will merely add 77 onto their current five digit PAC code, Wise said. Incoming students will receive fully random seven digit numbers...
...Friendship is not random," Drake said. "Commonbathrooms and shared hallways do not make closefriends...
This need to find satisfying villains also explains the endurance of Kennedy-assassination theories. To concede that Lee Oswald could by himself murder a President is to realize that history is significantly random; perversely, it's more reassuring to believe that a confederation of fbi and cia agents, mafiosi, Cubans and Kennedy's autopsy doctors hatched a plot remarkable both for its reach and for the fact that in more than three decades not a single participant has sung. Who were these adroit conspirators? The same men who two years earlier launched the quixotic, inept Bay of Pigs operation...
...want us to detest? Environmentalists, feminists, homosexuals, criminals, aliens (legal and illegal), communists (though not many are left), liberals, other religions, people of color, government, atheists, welfare mothers, educators, vegetarians -- the list goes on and on. Many of us fit into these categories. How do we stop these vicious random acts of violence? It's simple -- we stop the hate...
Kathryn Harrison's new novel (Random House; 317 pages; $23) about the Spanish Inquisition is, according to TIME critic John Skow, "very good, and a complete surprise." The story follows the separate torments of two women caught in their society's lunacy. Francisca, a young woman in love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel...