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...power. The ability to spring a surprise on the world cultivates an aura of command?over the people, the media, and, as the Party pretends to believe, over the very course of history. Keeping internal processes secret also prevents lower-ranking Party members and the public mobilizing to alter the course of events...
...leaders have some reforms in mind. These include: revising the country's inequitable household registration system that discriminates against rural residents; strengthening the rules for investigating Party members who abuse their positions; and reinforcing the institutions that allow popular "supervision" of local cadres. But they have no plans to alter the fundamental character of Party rule through real sharing of power and information. Whatever the leadership lineup that parades before the cameras this week, the message will be the same: leave the driving...
...message volume since the onset of the recession. "People are a little more bitter and angry," he says, "so they're far more interested in not only embarrassing their boss but using company time to do it." Not that a little plunge in the stock market is going to alter the basic dynamics of the worker-boss relationship. "It doesn't change that much," he says. "You put three people in the room, and one's in charge, and the other two are going to be disgruntled...
...closely linked to teaching within the College and Faculty of Arts and Science,” Cuno says. “So unless there is some representation of the College across the river or some sort of spectacular transaction…if we were over there it would radically alter our mission and I think that would be a mistake...
...There was class, and there were meals, but the day began and often ended with hours of watching game tape in addition to regular practices. Chalk some of this up to Murphy’s offense, one of the few in college football that allows quarterbacks to freely alter protection schemes from the line of scrimmage. Run properly, this allows the quarterback that much more time and vastly better reads. But in order to be run right, Murphy’s offense requires a lot more homework than most offenses even on the highest levels, as well as a surgeon?...