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...knows that the subjects of the story almost always complain about the results. That is usually a good sign, since the reporter tries to get a more detached view than any of the participants. And most newspapers are usually able to endure the gripes because they have a healthy buffer zone: since only one or two per cent of their readers are ever involved in the stories, papers like the Times or the Globe have more room for both interpretation and error...
...either one; the dangers are practical. People can get on these drug trips and not come back. I'm just scared to death of drugs, including marijuana, which might lead to addiction to harder things. Anyway, I just don't think we need the kind of buffer that drugs afford us. Life is not all that bad that we need something to break the reality...
...left him. His son Caxton, a conniving p.r. flack for a top political candidate, helps support his father-primarily because of the embarrassment the old man could cause by showing up in Washington. Freeman's cousin Gerrish, a money-mad but bumbling lawyer, acts as an unwilling buffer between the members of this emotionally bankrupt group...
...Buffer Zone...
Another feature of the plan is the establishment of a Committee on Undergraduate Instruction (CUI) in each department to act as "a buffer zone...