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Just some random thoughts for a random Friday in the midst of the most random of sport seasons...
...series of rare book mutilations reported to University police by a Widener Library official in late May. In those incidents, a person used a knife or razor to slice out pages of text, prints and plates. The person then left the book bindings in the library, discarding some at random locations and reshelving others...
Being homosexual isn't some great accomplishment that you achieve through years of hard work. It's not a talent you must cultivate with five hours of practice a day, like ice skating or violin playing. It's an identity, nothing more. If we're going to celebrate random identities, we shouldn't discriminate. I propose People With Black Hair Day, Freckled People's Week and Left-Handed Pride Month, for starters...
...findings - based on face-to-face interviews with a random sample of nearly 3,500 Americans, ages 18 to 59, selected using techniques honed through decades of political and consumer polling (see box) - will smash a lot of myths. "Whether the numbers are reassuring or alarming depends on where you sit," warns Edward Laumann, the University of Chicago sociologist who led the research team. While the scientists found that the spirit of the sexual revolution is alive and well in some quarters - they found that about 17% of American men and 3% of women have had sex with at least...
...assume that not everything that has been kept out of sight is a masterpiece -- but a lot of things on both sides must be, since they were not chosen at random. How much could the financially strapped Hermitage reap from a royalty on the tickets, catalog sales, replicas and other spin-offs? One thing is certain: kept unseen, in the basements, such treasures profit no one and are a liability to both sides...