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...Option 3: Collapse. The up-and-coming choice, this is rapidly becoming the most likely outcome with each second that I continue to reject actions involving making a decision. Collapse has many of the humiliating fatal flaws involved in Option 2 above, including what seems like the quite real possibility of actually dropping dead. Its only merit is that it does not involve making a decision of any kind. I can just sit back, keep trying to ski up this nasty little hill, and it'll happen all by itself. Risky, embarrassing, potentially deadly - better to come up with...
...ultimate fit—minus two things. The committee looked long and hard at Bollinger—his intelligence, his questioning mind, his grand plans attracted them all—but no matter his brilliant ideas and wonderful personality, he had two fatal flaws in their mind. At 54, Bollinger was just too old. The committee wanted someone who could hold the job for 15 or 20 years, like the great presidents Bok and Eliot. After all, only 26 people had served as president in Harvard's 365 years. Secondly, Bollinger had no Harvard degree—and thus would...
...understand Japan too well sometimes cause discomfort, as though they were spies or intruders in some sacred place. There is often an air of triumph, a happy sense of being reassured, when Japanese critics can point out how yet another foreign attempt to analyze Japan is based on fatal misunderstandings. It is as though the Japanese, to feel truly unique, need to be reassured that they are beyond understanding...
Yale’s lead at the beginning of the race would prove to be the fatal advantage against the Black and White...
...most thrilling race takes place not on the race track, but on the busy streets of a downtown metropolis, when Bly and Tanto make off with high-performance race cars. The exhilaration of speed is upped another level by the addition of all manner of fatal obstacles including trailers, other cars and pedestrians. Sewer covers fly and, in a nod to Marilyn Monroe’s (in)famous moment, the wind left in the wake of the race cars causes a woman’s skirt to flutter upwards...