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...Today, there's a considerable bond of trust between the faculty and the dean," Shepsle says. "Certainly it's a far cry from the 1960s when the faculty and administration often found themselves at odds, with each other...
Dornan, who referred to President Clinton as "a triple draft-dodger" and named officials he would appoint to his cabinet if elected (including 1992 vice presidential candidate Admiral James Bond Stockdale as secretary of defense), said he is particularly concerned with the dire financial and moral crises facing the nation...
That mystical bond with the people kept social discontent in check even as Aristide displayed no talent for governance. He promised food, jobs, justice; he delivered nothing. Three weeks ago, he ordered an official to broadcast the names of 1,000 citizens who should come to the National Palace to receive a $30 handout, worth a month's wages. Within hours a huge crowd mobbed the gates, demanding envelopes of cash. When the money ran out, hundreds invaded the Palace until police reinforcements forced them...
Even when people are truthful, online relationships are necessarily limited. "You're only accessing a portion of a person," points out psychologist Michelle Weil of Orange, California. "As people, we need a tactile physical presence to make a complete bond. We need to see their face, see their gestures and smell their breath." Jonathan Steuer, an Internet consultant who lives in San Francisco with a woman he courted by E-mail, agrees: "Finding someone online is great as long as you take it to the face-to-face level and have a real-life relationship...
...said that, "having come of age in the 'Rocky Horror' show," she was not too shocked by the Pudding Theatricals numbers. "I felt a certain bond with the whole drag aspect of the show," she said. She added that she was happy to know that the leaders of our future are comfortable as women...