Word: bureaucratice
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Since bureaucratic sadism is familiar to everyone everywhere, I was somewhat prepared for the denial of a simple request during the 600-mile, 18-hour train trip to Beijing. But I was not prepared for the sheer delight visible on the conductor's face when she said, "Meiyou, the rule...
NOW, "the course has no future." Problem is, the course has never even had a present or a past. Just a lot of empty bureaucratic promises and plenty of excuses.
WHEN Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence endorsed a controversial plan to build a hotel on the former site of the Gulf Station in Harvard Square, he signaled victory for Harvard's bureaucratic interests at the expense of its academic mission.
FAS has a legitimate interest in the use of the property. After all, Harvard faces incipient crises in shortages of both faculty office space and storage space for library books. To the observer untrained in the art of bureaucratic thinking, these needs seem more pressing than the shortage of moderately...
One reason for the picture's impact is its straight-ahead melodramatic structure. At its simplest level the movie functions as a well-constructed mystery story. A black man, a gardener named Gordon Ngubene (Winston Ntshona), comes to his employer, Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland), asking him to help find...