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  1. A 1992 conjecture of Alon and Spencer says, roughly, that the ordinary random graphGn,1/2typically admits a covering of a constant fraction of its edges by edge‐disjoint, nearly maximum cliques. We show that this is not the case. The disproof is based on some (partial) understanding of a more basic question: forandA1,…,Atchosen uniformly and independently from thek‐subsets of {1,…,n}, what can one say aboutOur main concern is trying to understand how closely the answers to this and a related question about matchings follow heuristics gotten by pretending that certain (dependent) choices are made independently. 
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