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...arguments for the proposal is that it would eliminate current House stereotypes by forcing a more random mixture of students in each House. Several students surveyed felt this would be a significant advantage over the present system...
...poll was conducted by random telephone calling of students in the Yard, the River Houses, and the Quad...
...bitterness of the campaign caused an explosion of violence and random killings from the ghettos of West Kingston to all of Jamaica. Politicized young thugs stalked the streets of Kingston during the three-week election campaign, assaulting supporters of the other side. Police estimate that at least twelve people were killed during the campaign. thereby raising Jamaica's political-murder toll this year to more than 200. Finally, authorities were forced to ban all political rallies, which had acted as magnets for the thugs...
...panel of 15 Yard freshmen will be drawn at random to decide whether it will nominate any of its numbers for duty on the CRR. The panel may nominate as many as five or none, and it will then be up to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life to send one of those...
...with his resentment tucked into his waistband like a .38" That's a wonderful phrase--is that a resentment in your pocket or are you just glad to see me. One gets the feeling that Wolfe is a careful craftsman, that he works hard at writing. A collection of random pieces of journalism often shows how hard it is to keep the same pet phrases that you used ten months ago for an Esquire piece out of the new one you're writing for New York Magazine. Wolfe is a fine writer; it's his ideas that are terrible...