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Russel A. Simpson, Director of Admissions at the Law School, said that the program is presently just an experiment, and that students to be offered the option were chosen at random...
...along by the nationalist zeal of the romantic, rambunctious Fenians, who eventually fathered the I.R.A. Their principal organization was the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was founded on St. Patrick's Day, 1858, to carry on Wolfe Tone's dream of independence. Vaguely socialist in doctrine, the Brotherhood specialized in random bombings and produced its share of patriotic heroes for Ireland to keen over. Among the most famous?although hardly the most successful?were "the Manchester Martyrs," Michael Larkin, William Allen and Michael O'Brien, who were hanged in Manchester in 1867 for shooting an English constable while they tried...
...seemed a random attack on "police in general," and the only clue was the telephone call, which had been routinely taped. To find a matching voice, police interrogated 13 women in the neighborhood. At each interview they made "voiceprints"-electronic "pictures" of the individual's voice. Because her voiceprint matched the taped call, Caroline Trimble, 18, was arrested and later indicted for first-degree murder...
...world came with the development of linguistic capabilities (by chance again) which led-to-the enlargement of the brain (by selective pressures, again) and the ensuing host of conscious performances. Man, then, is bound as much as any other organism to his history as an evolutionary freak: A purely random sequence of events occurred on a molecular level which included the development of communicable thought...
...knowledge point out the inevitable conclusion that we are accidents, unique but not particularly special. Monod, as a philosopher-biologist, is in the position to point this out. What western man does with this information is anyone's guess. Foresight is another casualty of Monod's theory of random biochemistry...