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...instance, when did things become so random here at Harvard? Since the Great Housing Lottery Debate, this seems to have become a significant word in almost every student's vocabulary. But "random" has more to do with entropy than with diversity and housing choices...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard-Speak | 10/27/1990 | See Source »

...Members deliver invitations to the door," says a punchee. "It is not a random process. They punch people they know, and those who would be good for the club...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Punched Out: How to Get Into a Final Club | 10/24/1990 | See Source »

...first half paragraph and stay away through several flight-delay announcements. No-qual prose and cereal-box characters are customary, though an occasional lapse into good writing does no harm. The Odyssey and Moby Dick, both wide-bodies before their time, would have been perfect airport novels. Herewith a random grab of half a dozen new airporters, none written by Homer or Herman Melville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wide-Bodies On the Runway | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...Random House; 271 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shedunit DEADLY ILLUSIONS by Samuel Marx and Joyce Vanderveen | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...Random House; 198 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Malignancies | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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