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...idle. A major shipping center in calmer days, the port of Basra is now filled with stranded and rusting vessels. In the middle of the Shatt al Arab, formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, two cargo ships lie half submerged, the apparent victims of random shells...
...addition, the College's quota system may have affected which houses went random. The quotas require that the ratio of sophomore men to women be between 1:1 and 2:1. If a house had reached its quota for male or female sophomores, the computer would only accept members of the opposite...
...Random House; 272 pages...
Always already: to be inserted at random in any sentence...
...While a random system would create greater diversity within each house, it would nonetheless allow and even encourage people with similar interests and characteristics to move through the lottery to a house together. That's how it should be Freshmen would have to give up their nightly ice-cream bashes but the resulting calm nerves and diverse houses would more than compensate...