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Foreigners crowded Beijing's airport, trying to escape a chaotic city where tanks and troops raced along main avenues firing at random. In Washington, the State Department urged all Americans "to leave at once" and has begun to charter commercial aircraft to help evacuate civilians from Beijing and Shanghai...
...freshman year we were staying up late talking about all sorts of stuff," he says. One morning, conversation turned to philosophy: "the Heisenberg randomness principle, how it related to people's fate and religion and other metaphysical stuff," Hsia recollects. To himself, Hsia says, the notion of life's dependence on random chance posed no dilemma. But for the Catholic, intellectually committed Ocasio, the idea his actions might have no effect was unacceptable...
...House masters announce a new lottery proposal introducing random assignment to the houses after nearly 20 years of assignment based on student choice. The measure answers rising concerns of polarizing stereotypes in the houses...
...more personal level, students confronted the consequences of another type of diversity for which Harvard so often congratulates itself. Masters this year requested a more random system of assigning students to the houses to avoid what they said was growing segregation by extracurricular or academic interest. The controversial plan foundered, but Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 plans to reintroduce it this fall in different form...
Many people fear gang rapes or being the random target of a sociopath. In fact, say many experts, the offending youth most often acts alone, is a respectable member of the community and knows the victim. So-called date rape is one of the most common adolescent sexual crimes...