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There are things that are predictable, but there was this episode where a fan of David Hasselhoff bursts into the Douglas Hofstadter newsgroup and says, "David Hasselhoff rules the world, do you agree? And that kind of random confusion is just so classic, and so funny. You get on the net and sooner or later you're going to see some sort of online, interactive erotica, that's just a function of time and where you are, but the Hasselhoff thing was so random. I just told my mother...
...bumped into some friends along the way, andit's cool that random people will come up to youand talk," Donlan said. "It's a nice sense ofcommunity in the city, at least...
...have an educational program with faculty and students and monthly random inspections," Harvard's Director of Federal and State Government Relations Kevin Casey said yesterday...
...I.R.S. is doubling the number of returns it audits, to 2%. Most audits focus on one or two items, and many are conducted by mail. But a record 153,000 will be chosen at random to face the bureaucratic equivalent of a rubber-hose interrogation: a line-by-line, show-us-your-bank-statements gauntlet known as the Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program, which triples in size this year. Even scarier for cheaters -- and more annoying for honest taxpayers-4,500 IRS auditors have undergone 32 hours of training in new "economic reality" techniques for intruding deeply into the life-styles...
...largely created, at least as far as most Americans were concerned. Traveling with his wife, the formidable Clare Boothe Luce, "Harry," as he was called, decided to bring home a souvenir, a talented bundle of energy named Theodore H. White. They are the Harry & Teddy (Random House; 340 pages; $24) of this smart little guide to big-time journalism by Thomas Griffith, a former foreign editor of TIME and editor of LIFE...