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...teams have been winnowed to four for the semifinals, and Oliphant derides his Yale opponents' argument that drug abuse proves society's failure to adapt to change. "We are still waiting for their clear evidence of social breakdown," he says, "and all we get is 'drugs.' " "I wish we would get drugs," chirps an audience member. There is laughter and desk bashing. Yale's Brian Peterson tries anecdote. "I can't adapt to Reagan," he says, "I can't adapt to the fact that my federal scholarship money is gone...
...historical phenomenon is usually expressed in the conviction that a government under siege can best maintain itself by accelerating democratic reform and by expanding its base of support by sharing power. But the fundamental cause of a civil war (of which guerrilla war is a special category) is the breakdown of domestic consensus. Compromise, the essence of democratic politics, is its first victim. Civil wars almost without exception end in victory or defeat, never in coalition governments-the favorite American recipe. Concessions are ascribed to the weakness of those holding power, not to their magnanimity, and hence, perversely, may accelerate...
...began, with a new home and more freshmen than Billy Cleary had ever seen. A February 21 loss to Cornell following a three-hour bus breakdown dumped the innocents into ninth place. A week later, senior goalie John Huynes dropped a save over his own goal line in a 3-2 loss to Colgate. A 6-5, overtime loss at Dartmouth and it was all over. The final record...
...contract with the U.A.W. expires Sept. 14. Negotiations are scheduled to resume in July. In January, GM and the union broke off tentative talks after the union had proposed reducing the prices of cars in proportion to wage and benefit cuts by the U.A.W. One major cause of the breakdown was the fear that workers would not accept any deal that meant a reduction in benefits. General Motors, though, will now be pushing hard to get concessions from the unions. As a result of the Ford deal and another arrangement already in effect at Chrysler, GM will have higher costs...
...pulls it off. But in The Dean's December one senses the so-called "novel of ideas" working back-on itself, turning horror into an abstraction rather than applying the ideas to make some out of the horror. Bellow writes about the process of thinking about the manifold breakdown Corde is observing...