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...certainly premature to write his epitaph. He has survived many bouts of ill health in the past, weathering an apparent nervous breakdown, a kidney disorder and, of course, his chronic problem with alcohol. With each rebound, he has seemed to delight in showing off his vigorous constitution, shaming pundits who were on the verge of announcing his demise...
Participants in the policymaking process have called the affair a "glitch." Administrators have acknowledged a communications breakdown. And many of those responsible for enacting and living with the new policy said they are largely unaware of its existence...
...illustration of the breakdown in communication, Joyce M. Brinton, the director of the University's Office for Technology and Trademark Licensing, said the conflict-of-interest issue--the guiding principle of the committee's report--hadn't been considered policy makers when addressing the equity issue...
There used to be another name for those programs: parents. And so family breakdown feeds poverty, which feeds more family breakdown. To interrupt that diabolical cycle, devoted fathers are crucial. That's one part of the equation that federal programs have neglected. But even the most devoted dads can't get jobs where there are none or start a business where there's no start-up capital-problems that conservatives pay lip service to at best. "You can't solve these problems on individual transformation alone,'' warns Harvard University professor and author Cornel West...
...increase in handguns and the breakdown of the family has created an "American tragedy," Geoffrey Canada told a crowd of 300 graduate students and educators at Longfellow Hall last night...