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...administrators decided to play Keystone Cops last summer, I'm confident that the same would have been true for the 1985-86 CUE Guide," Ozment said. "Some people decided to fix something that wasn't broke, and in the process, they broke...
When he returns to the neighborhood, most of O'Neill's friends can tell he's been hard at work. "When I fix his shoes he wants a whole new bottom," says cobbler Gimigliano...
FACT members say they believe that the Dworkin-MacKinnon bill "is a quick fix to a deep-seated problem," which should be attacked by legislation guaranteeing equal pay scales, affirmative action, and increased bargaining power...
...Pentagon dismissed Aspin's charges as "uninformed and inaccurate," and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger continued to assert that there was nothing basically wrong with the military establishment. "If a thing ain't broke," he has repeatedly argued, "don't fix it." But the Pentagon chief appears on the defensive. In a speech billed as a major exposition of U.S. defense strategy, Weinberger last week offered little more than vague generalities that failed to quiet his critics...
...perhaps even report a peer who has run afoul of the rules. The criticisms ranged from the insipid--that it was nostalgia for his alma mater, honor-bound Princeton that motivated Spence to undertake the study--to the pragmatic--that if the system ain't broke don't fix it--to the serious--no one wants to bust a buddy. Surely, such a cosmopolitan and enlightened a place as Harvard has no use for an anachronism that has traditionally been the hallmark of those preppy colleges nestled in the idyllic Northeast...