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...When this set of plays appeared in Dublin, the Irish, who always celebrate really good sacrilege with a riot, responded with a universal yawn. Some Boston Catholics are more uptight about Durang, and they make the controversy that sells the tickets. But controversy can't hold up a chaotic script whose absurdity is less than comic...
...start is chaotic, to say the least, 50 or60 boats trying to funnel through the narrowstarting line...
...Massachusetts at Amherst. Faculty ideologies range from the Marxism of Historian John Womack to Galbraith's liberalist economics to the conservative political science of James Q. Wilson to the libertarian ruminations of Philosopher Robert Nozick. "This," says John Shattuck, vice president for government affairs, "is a very dynamic and chaotic institution...
...status. Whether he is an Asian peasant tilling his land or an American businessman building a company, the profit incentive is a powerful force. Capitalism is not a neat, orderly system. The street vendors of Lima or Peking or New York City, some basic examples of capitalism, are more chaotic than the orderly but often empty stores in so many socialist states. Capitalism's unruliness means that it will always be subject to swings of boom and bust. The system, however, presents the constant opportunity for profit and for improvement of the individual's lot. Countries that want to develop...
Lobbyists (and legislators interested in restoring loopholes) are expected to keep their mouths shut about tax reform until the bill goes to a closed-door conference where whatever passes the Senate must be reconciled with the House-passed version. House-Senate conferences tend to be chaotic trading games where deals are cut in back corridors long after the nightly news has signed off. As the battle over tax reform reaches its final hour, the House-Senate conference looms as the dark at the end of the tunnel...