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...loss includes Vivendi's share of the $1.34 billion the company and its British partner Vodafone pumped into a snazzy Internet portal, Vizzavi, which Messier claimed would be revolutionary. Vizzavi is now practically worthless. To some, it was evidence that Messier--who started his career as a French government bureaucrat--was in over his head. "The market sees him taking on an operational challenge and isn't convinced he has the background, experience or talent to pull it off," says a source close to Vivendi...
There has been some debate as to whether the senior tutor should be more of an administrator, or more of a counselor and an advisor. The dean of the College prefers the role of the bureaucrat while others straddle the fence, arguing that the two roles are not mutually exclusive. Given the sad state of our academic guidance and general counseling at this school, however, it seems obvious that the senior tutor should, more than anything, act as an advisor to undergraduates...
...what about the sophomores? Why is there no Sophomore Parents Weekend? What bureaucrat decided that the class that is most in need of a bit of parental love ought to be left out in the cold? Is it just, as usual, that no one cares enough to think about the sophomores? Or is the administration afraid of what parents would find if they did visit during sophomore year...
Arendt coined the term banality of evil in order to try to define the (terrifying) ordinariness of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi bureaucrat who helped manage Hitler's killing machine. Each age, it may be, gets its own appropriate evil. A centerless bureaucrat, for example, to run the Nazi regime's program of industrial extermination. In the videotape, bin Laden seems to radiate--if that is the word--a different sort of banality: the unexpected ordinariness of his awfulness...