Multiple paste event in ical?

I often need to copy and paste an event into many new dates. I'd like to be able to select several dates at once by clicking on the dates (such as you can select several photos in iphoto at once) and paste the event into these dates, rather than selecting each date one at a time and pasting one at a time. Is there any way to do this? When you originally add a new event, and make it recurring, I also don't see any way to select many dates at once randomly...not every Tuesday, or every week, but say, 15 random dates during the month.
Cheers,
Don W.
Barrington, IL

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