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...Jerseyites grudgingly agreeing that new taxes were inevitable, Florio worked them relentlessly for support of his proposals. In diners, gyms, boardrooms and convention halls, he explained his position again and again. "A lot of politicians are just plain lazy," he says in the midst of another chaotic day. "They just don't want to make the case, and so they end up pandering to special interests. To underestimate the people is extremely dumb...
Nothing wrong with that. The system for allocating research and treatment money in American medicine is archaic, chaotic and almost random anyway. Under the "Disease of the Month Club" syndrome, any disease that has in some way affected a Congressman or some relation gets special treatment. There is rough justice in this method of allocation because after a while Congressmen and their kin get to experience most of the medical tragedies that life has to offer. At the end of the day, therefore, funds tend to get allocated in a fairly proportionate...
...evolved from a political asterisk to serious contender in five short months by becoming a channel for rage and frustration against bureaucracy in general and the fiscally disastrous administration of Michael Dukakis in particular. He capped his uphill fight by narrowly corralling the necessary 15% of delegates at a chaotic Democratic state convention. For that feat, Silber drew at least as much attention as former state attorney general Francis X. Bellotti got for finishing first...
...also presided over the implementation of the Core Curriculum, which superceded the chaotic General Education requirements. Under Bok's tenure--but not necessarily because of Bok--the diversity of the student body also increased dramatically. Although the College's student body is still concentrated among the elite, it is nonetheless one of the most diverse of any private institution in the country...
...make this teeny little change, which is Biff Tannen getting that sports almanac, then history veers off. It isn't that it is random that it happened the second way. You see, people mistakenly think that my book Wonderful Life is a claim that evolution is random, totally chaotic and unexplainable. That is not what historical explanation holds. It holds that what actually happened makes sense. It's just that what actually happened is one of a billion possible alternatives, and you'd never get it to run exactly the same way again...