Word: randomization
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...dressed as Mr. Peanut campaigns for mayor. In Hungary, throngs of student protesters are stopped by the police for carrying terracotta bricks on their shoulders. And in Japan, a photographer composes a score to be played to the changing phases of the moon. What would seem to be a random series of unrelated acts of political satire, social commentary and spiritual meditation-and by artists from across the world, no less-are all, astonishingly, put under one roof and under the general rubric of "conceptualism." Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, at the MIT List Visual Arts Center...
...from a purely practical standpoint, Donald has written the perfect short history of Lincoln for the Harvard student with no time on his hands and a penchant for random tidbits of American history. For late-night drunken trivial pursuit games or simple juice-box facts style knowledge, Lincoln at Home is absolutely a masterpiece...
...plan approved by the school committee last spring, that system was abolished. This fall, CRLS opened with five equally sized "small schools," each with a dean of curriculum and a dean of students. Students are assigned to the houses at random. Then administrators switch around students to assure racial and economic diversity...
...School and now heads the Alliance for Children's Rights. He chaired a countywide panel that reviewed the state's foster-care record. Last January it concluded that the system in Los Angeles County operates with minimal data on its wards and a safety-monitoring process that is random at best. Some departments are not aware of what others are doing, so a child's safety often relies on guesswork. "Fundamentally," says Bridge, 34, "we've come a very small distance from the days when I was in foster care." In short, he adds, Los Angeles County lacks the ability...
...when Frank Capra was making those feel-good movies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. If Pay It Forward's director Mimi Leder and her cast can even come close to making us feel uplifted and inspire us to go out and practice random acts of kindness, then good for them. Our country could use a little "Capra-corn," even if it's a pale imitation. PAT PARRISH Los Angeles...