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...degree in psychology to recognize a world-class paranoid. Perot starts with a firm conviction of his own superior gifts and high destiny. Then, if his actual situation falls short, he looks for scapegoats. In Perot's mind, nothing that has ever retarded his many causes has been his fault. Whether it is a band of shortsighted General Motors directors, government officials callously abandoning soldiers in Southeast Asia or journalists scrutinizing his background, Perot routinely views himself as the helpless victim of dark conspiracies. Is the collective memory so short that we cannot recall July, when, at a high point...
...play itself was more troublesome. I hope that Jon Dorf's next play will be, as it ought, shorter and better. These two things are linked: the overwhelming fault of Ben was that it was too damn long. Dorf tried to capture the relationship between Ben and the Baxter, the restaurant owner, by making their dialogue strained, which led to deliberate pauses of up to 40 seconds between lines. Yes, I did time it. I had nothing better to do. Moreover, the restaurant guy was supposed to be a windbag, and Dorf went at the job too eagerly. His monologues...
Gifford insisted that any delays in litigation were Harvard's fault, noting that she had negotiated an informal agreement with Harvard Real Estate in the spring and submitted a written proposal at the beginning of the summer...
...record makes clear that Bush's economic missteps were less the fault of his advisers than of his own political strategy and economic philosophy, which held that even in the midst of recession, Washington should, in his words, "let the economy right itself." He believed that any attempt at economic stimulation, beyond his proposed tax breaks for certain businesses and investors, would push up interest rates and "make things worse...
...Students from North House] always want to know why the lines are so long," said Tiffany A. Wallace '96. "It's not our fault. It's just more convenient...