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MARIE: A TRUE STORY by Peter Maas Random House; 420 pages...
...explosion, but South African officials blamed the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.), an antiapartheid group that has launched such attacks on urban centers. In the past, the A.N.C. has chosen symbolic targets of white rule, such as police stations and government buildings, but has apparently tried to avoid the random killing of civilians...
...fairy tale has become a horror story. Plainclothes police "watchdogs" arrest citizens at random. The university has been closed, along with all but the state-controlled press. Radio stations and trade union headquarters have been blown to rubble; nearly all of the country's commissioned officers have resigned or been dismissed. Says one of the few locals unafraid to talk: "People are terrified and suspicious of informers everywhere...
Playing Donkey Kong, one researcher observed. "Oh, the balls can roll off the end--what is this, just a random number thing?" "I don't know." his fellow researcher replied. "I try to save the hammers so I'll have them when I need them," he added...
...survey is, of course, skewed. The samples are not perfectly random, too small to be statistically significant, and unfair because any books currently checked out could not be included. But it suggests at least, that a lot of books in Widener are going unused. And it shows a fallacy in all of the plans the library mavens are considering to alleviate the space crunch--they treat all 3,160,000 books in Widener (give or take a few hundred thousand) as equi-useful...