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...following the rules of the cosmic equilibrium, the end of the baseball strike has brought about a new kind of strike, featuring a new breed of spoiled talents. Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), which represents about 350 teaching assistants, took a stand for the proletariat everywhere and called on its members to not teach any classes this week...
DIED. ROBERT BOLT, 70, playwright and screenwriter; after years of declining health; in southern England. The theme of an individual's struggle for moral equilibrium in the face of world-shattering historical events runs through much of Bolt's work, from his career-making play, 1960's A Man for All Seasons, which he fashioned into an Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1966 movie version, to his scripts for the David Lean epics Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Dr. Zhivago (1965)-the latter earning Bolt an Oscar...
...faction that sees the limits of state intervention. A stable middle has yet to be established. Neither party has the leaders or the programs to transcend the need to satisfy the fire breathers on the edges. The electorate, meanwhile, veers back and forth trying to reach an equilibrium. Democrats are down, then up. Republicans out, then in. The search is on in earnest for a party and a program and a leader that are not captive to Washington and its aura of self-preservation and self-aggrandizement. It was certainly premature to declare a permanent Republican hegemony. One senior White...
...economic behavior by analyzing the strategies "players" in the marketplace use to maximize their winnings. Nash, drawing on the dynamics of such games as poker and chess, introduced the distinction between cooperative games, in which players form binding agreements, and noncooperative ones, in which they don't. His "Nash Equilibrium" has been used by generations of corporate and military strategists to help decide when to hold 'em and when to fold...
...only thing now holding the country together is a delicate equilibrium of fear. On one hand there is each ethnic group's terror of the other. Counterbalancing that is the fear that if either side gives in to its worst impulses, Burundi will detonate as Rwanda did. "It's a tense, threatening atmosphere," says Irish aid worker Orla Quinlan. "Every time someone is attacked or killed, you say that's it. That's the trigger that will blow Burundi apart...