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...Harvard wins this decision, it will be proof, more than anything, that the right combination of money and lawyers can do just about anything. If it loses, officials will be angry and probably talk about a breakdown in communications between the University and the state. But as the University's lawyers march off to court to challenge the decisions, the officials who dispatch them should realize that a more sensitive approach to their problems, from striking workers to dusty diesels, might have been more efficient in the long...
...significant and encouraging ? it was the first time that the Iranian authorities had committed themselves to letting the hostages go ? the unpleasant surprise of a phased release and the difficulty in meeting the conditions meant that once again, a breakthrough in the crisis could turn into a breakdown...
...what if the computers fail? NBC's entire system did on Election Night 1964, leaving Huntley and Brinkley without any fast facts. In 1976, Mitofsky's terminal had a nervous breakdown halfway through the night. Fortunately, he had a spare...
...class" consists of individuals who have carried the logic of modern culture to its end... they make up a cultural phenomenon that mirrors the breakdown of traditional values in Western society. It is not a "new class' in any social-structural sense. It is the endpoint of a culture in disarray...
...Bell relishes greater liberty in the form of equality of opportunity, it is the emphasis on individualism which has "ruptured the comity" and caused the breakdown of traditional values. He always stands with one foot in each camp--sometimes he desires the good old days, other times he craves the conditions that destroyed the good old days. He wants it both ways...