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...lounge in the front of the club to let some of the acrid smoke out. Otherwise there was no sign about the tightly curtained windows that anything unusual was happening inside. The club members continued to come and go, swinging their canes, undisturbed by the mass of fire-fighting apparatus outside. One, more curious than the rest, came out to the door with a glass...
...then there's the problem of getting Microsoft to obey the new rules. "Conduct remedies require some degree of cooperation and good faith--or a very significant enforcement apparatus," says Ed Black, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association. Microsoft's critics complain that the company doesn't act in good faith: they point out that this case was filed in the first place when Justice determined Microsoft had violated a 1995 consent agreement. Enforcement mechanisms have their own problems. Almost nobody--inside Microsoft or out of it--wants the Federal Government overseeing Microsoft's business decisions and product designs...
After they are "tapped" for membership, the new Skulls are greeted in a dimly lit, dungeon-esque inner-sanctum by faceless seasoned Skulls in monk's cloaks. Later, as part of the initiation process, two of the pledges are required to enter a cage-like apparatus, which dates back to the 17th century and resembles a medieval torture device, and reveal their deepest, darkest secrets. And as an attempt to settle an irreconcilable dispute between two members there is a duel using archaic pistols. Apparently this is a common method of settling intra-Skulls disputes, since in the movie there...
...least two machines will necessarily bear signs reading "Out of Order", but this often fails to deter the more skeptically arrogant runners. They learn the hard way, and, after towing their belongings up to the apparatus, they ultimately lose their place in line when they realize the machine does not work...
...company seem to believe that the question of the living wage will fade away if only they wait long enough? The minimal cost of implementation--only one-half of one percent of the interest on the endowment--cannot explain administrators' intractable stance. Perhaps Rudenstine and the labyrinthine Harvard management apparatus prefer that all decisions, even those that define the character of the Harvard community, be made in obscurity and according to a limited set of priorities...