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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...school was becoming progressively more egalitarian,” Phil says of his freshman spring. “We were all very affected by the evolution of the hippie movement and the anti-war movement. We came as a college, ready as a group to change the things that didn’t make sense...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love the Boy Next Door | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

Management gurus have forecast the end of organizational hierarchies for decades. In an era of cascading technology and shifting social attitudes, they say, firms will turn into "communities," "horizontal structures" and other egalitarian forms. Nice buzzwords, but not reality, says Stanford Business School professor Harold J. Leavitt in Top Down: Why Hierarchies Are Here to Stay and How to Manage Them More Effectively. Sure, Leavitt writes, hierarchies breed "infantilizing dependency that generates distrust, conflict, toadying, territoriality, backstabbing, distorted communication and most of the other ailments that plague every large organization." But they persist because compared with the alternatives, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive Summary: Rank Rules! | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...just suffered a brutal defeat. American lives were risked to prevent American and global media from spinning a victory into humiliating defeat.” Hard-hitting stories like this are what storyteller blogs are truly good at—they showcase the real power of egalitarian media. By allowing anyone to be a journalist, blogs like Missick’s open up a huge new range of perspectives for public consumption...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: The State of the Blogosphere | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...sexy as it sounds to claim the free radical (or in this case, conservative) voice inside and act as if the egalitarian future is now, the ties that bind are still binding. And for the time being, maybe we can look for freedom elsewhere...

Author: By Ilana J. Sichel, THE ROUGH CUT | Title: In and Out | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...evolved from open hostility to an acceptance that, in some form or another, it's here to stay, and that to campaign on a platform of scaling it back is politically fraught. The Coalition has realized, says Medibank architect Deeble, "that Australians like Medicare. They see it as an egalitarian system that helps not just them but everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicare and Feuding | 9/29/2004 | See Source »

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