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Alas, sometimes the headlines are the wrong kind. Random House recently shredded copies of a biography of Barbara Hutton to escape a costly libel suit. Howard Hughes' fake autobiography earlier proved that hot book ideas can be too good to be true...
...very least "big." At Hotchkiss, one of the innumerable schools they attended, trailing behind their father's impulse to establish, then break up permanent homes, there was the doctor who "treats the sons of some of the most important in the U.S., and he was not select at random. He took care of you, Marc, you too, Johnny, as well...
...findings once again resuscitated calls for an abolition of the housing lottery based on choice, in favor of a random lottery. Administrators and members of the Undergraduate Council, however, appeared to be exploring more moderate solutions to eliminate these disparities...
Walter Mondale became serious about cigars when he was in the Senate. His taste was, well, rather random. He took anything offered. Once he became Vice President, he had access to the really fine leaves, like Hoyo de Monterrey. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who relished the Cubans and other top grades, tutored Mondale. "You better take advantage of the good cigars," he counseled. "You don't get much else in that job." Mondale listened...
Much of the violence was random. Some of the rioters were known troublemakers; others were youths who have flocked into the city in recent years in an unsuccessful search for work. After the army had finally restored a semblance of order, new clashes broke out during a by-election in Hyderabad, some 400 miles east of Bombay. Six people were killed and 250 arrested...