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Many students said they tried to "beat the system" by chosing houses they believed would not be very popular. As a result, various river houses had openings in the random pool...
...pattern of random terror continued for nearly 30 miles. Witnesses said the gunmen fired machine guns and threw grenades at passing cars from the hijacked bus. Some passengers inside the bus were fired on, and at least one body was dumped along the way. An American youth who was driving from Tel Aviv to Haifa with his family reported seeing "a car standing on the other side of the highway and a body lying near by. Moments later," he said, "I saw a bus zigzagging toward our side of the highway. When we came close it stopped. Somebody came down...
...addition to all that, the IRS computers this year will select for audit, purely at random, 42,000 returns, or about one in 2,000, in order to develop a statistical profile of all taxpayers. The incomes of these audited taxpayers will range from the lowest to the highest; anyone is vulnerable. These audits will give the IRS the top-secret norms for deductions against which all returns will be judged...
...South House delegation presented the results of a poll of 69 students--a random sample, the delegates said, because no specific group intentionally applies to South House--that showed that over 70 per cent opposed the special minority clause, and would consequently not vote to ratify the convention's constitution...
Zevon is about equal parts berserk satirist and strung-out romantic. He can write desolating love songs with racked refrains like, "We made mad love/ Shadow love/ Random love/ And abandoned love...