Word: randomization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Second, questions arose over the Kuwaitis' random arrest, torture and execution of alleged "collaborators," atrocities similar to some of the Iraqi actions which so sickened Bush the rhetorician...
Vote of conscience? What an odd distribution of congressional consciences we have, when 98% of Republican consciences just happen to fall on the President's side of the argument, and 70% of Democratic consciences on the other. Mathematicians will long be studying this extraordinary exception to the law of random probabilities...
Especially in the Frug stabbing, doubt about the particular facts of the crime has affected the public mood. If the Bunting fellow's killing was a random crime, then there is more reason for fear than if the stabber had been out to get Frug specifically, as some have suggested...
...story is a random walk -- no cause, no effect and no harm done -- with the author's mischievous grin taking the curse off a detectable undertone of "Ain't I cute!" Getting non sequiturs to tail up like circus elephants doesn't always work, even if the paragraphs are amusing. In a sketch called Blumenthal on the Air, an American disk jockey for some reason is based in Paris and unaccountably burdened with a surly Iranian wife. He broods murkily without enlightenment, and so does the reader...
OBJECT LESSONS by Anna Quindlen; Random House; 272 pages...