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...talk to dead people," she said for openers, "because it's a waste of time. They never answer back." Okay, I thought, we've got a real case here, so be nice and maybe she'll fall asleep. "Handguns shouldn't be controlled, you know, I mean what if a ghost comes into your house? If you don't have a gun by your bed, what can you do to chase the ghost away? I have my rights, and I want to protect myself from ghosts. . ." On and on she rambled, getting louder and louder until she was literally screeching...
Pervading every aspect of life is a lack of concern and enthusiasm. The secretary asleep at her desk and the reply "Gone out" have almost become national symbols of bureaucracy. Government officials are likely to be uninformed and unable to make a decision. A foreign business man complains: "I've wanted to buy things that Tanzania supposedly wants to sell. But the deals have fallen through because no one cared enough or was able to quote me a price." Managers are frustrated by laws making it impossible for them to dismiss or even discipline incompetent workers...
...asleep, so I didn't respond too quickly, but I was astounded, drunk, and sleepy--not mad," Richard I. Anders '79, a Dunster House resident said yesterday...
...second act in 33 Dunster St. I chickened out. I spent much of that restless night dreaming the post-mortem dream reprinted above. Now, three days later, I offer no excuses except the following good ones: 1) My legs, as I have already pointed out, had fallen almost irretrievably asleep. 2) I was growing just a trifle annoyed at the folks sitting next to me--management "plants," I reckoned, the magnitude of whose outbursts of laughter stood in inverse proportion to that the of the rest of the audience; when a line simply wasn't funny, they'd purposely laugh...
...student, he's a disaster. Supposedly, there was one lecture--probably in his freshman year--that he didn't fall asleep at. Note, gentlemen, the emphasis on didn...