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...ordered choice system was the result of a brokered compromise among some students who wanted to retain ordered choice in the computerized assignment procedure and many house masters who insisted on fully random housing allotments...
Some Harvard students, however, have overcome the stereotype of random hook-ups and formals with friends as dates. A small but proud percentage of the Class of 1993 will leave the singles scene soon after they leave Mother Harvard...
...school. Some of the allegations emerged in response to inquiries that the investigators mailed to alumni. But several students had leveled accusations while they were enrolled at St. Lawrence and the staff did little. Nor were the boys' parents typically notified. The sins of St. Lawrence were not random incidents, asserts Robert L. Elliott, an attorney representing several alleged victims. "It wasn't a guy or a couple of guys. It was a generation of guys. They treated this as a hunting preserve...
PUBLISHER: RANDOM HOUSE; 549 PAGES...
...times, however, the "philosophy" is a little self-conscious. For example, a more or less random character suddenly starts an erudite discussion on the crumbling of the Soviet Union: "If we let Russia get away from us this time, if we don't help, then we've failed twice, you know. First at Archangel...