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...applicant also noted that “all [other] schools had done their due diligence, determined that the notification function was flawed and decided not to use it. That is, all schools except HBS which to date is the only one that actually posted some decisions...
...something you can really practice for, so it was sort of a mental exhaustion,” first baseman Cecily Gordon said. “We came off an early game and we played wonderfully, and then I just think we let down. It was just a function of us not quite being prepared mentally...
...appointment-with its implicit acknowledgment that there was no Japanese sufficiently qualified to lead the company-is evidence of how hard Japan Inc. now finds it to pull off the double act that Morita once handled so well. To an extent, the troubles of corporate Japan are a function of a long period of economic stagnation. During the boom years of the 1970s and '80s, Japan Inc.'s single-minded focus on engineering and process development-not to mention a resistance to foreign ideas-were hallmarks of the country's rapid economic progress and a source of national pride...
...with The Comfort of Strangers, I came to the end of something," he says. "I had been in the grip of the last gasp of existentialism, writing about people adrift in cities that are not named. Now I want specificity. Maybe it's a function of aging. I feel as if I've got less time left; I want to make sense." Not perfect sense; his later novels, like The Innocent, Black Dogs and Enduring Love, are still full of absurdity and enigma. But the characters have a more full-blooded life. Combine that with McEwan's companionable mind--strange...
...much harder to defend institutions that people saw as bourgeois. People just didn't feel good about them. It was more important to be engaged and committed. At places like Cornell, people just didn't believe in very much any longer. Free discussion was no longer the primary function of the university. Only if blacks and women, Latinos and so on used force were they to have a place in the curriculum. Rationalization became reason...