Word: leaderlessness
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...five-year-old club was left leaderless for the summer, after former President Odoi M. Odotei '98 resigned last spring, opting to take a year off. Emergency elections were held several weeks ago, with former events manager Nabeil O. Sarhan '98 taking over as president...
...riot gear. They arrested more than 100 cyclists, including some peaceable ones who were just trying to point out that the city needs more bike lanes; their bikes were confiscated. The normally unflappable Mayor Willie Brown, a world-class deal broker, seemed ready to snap. Critical Mass, a leaderless mob that refers to itself as an idea rather than an organization (and has manifestations in a dozen other cities), had got his goat by having no one for him to cut a deal with. Willie doesn't do Zen. He threatened to keep both the bikes and the riders locked...
...should prove easy to push through Tony Blair's program of giving power to Scottish and Welsh assemblies and kicking the hereditary peers out of the House of Lords. It is the biggest Tory defeat in 165 years: half the government have lost their seats, the party is virtually leaderless, the succession is wide open, and the only Tory politician who is looking calm, secure and confident is Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned loyally for John Major but privately forecast his catastrophic defeat. She will again be the Tory queen, and the kingmaker in the succession struggle...
...MONTHS LATER, JOHNSON was working out with the Lakers, who until last week were a young and talented but leaderless team stuck in third place in the Pacific Division. After a few practice sessions, the guard tandem of Nick Van Exel and Eddie Jones, and later coach Del Harris and Laker executive vice president Jerry West, put a full-court press on Johnson, asking him to return, telling him that he was just what the team needed. Said Harris: "I don't care if I have to sleep outside his house. I want him." Perhaps the most important endorsement came...
...Brigadoon -- a flowering remnant of the '60s, when hippie communalism and libertarian politics formed the roots of the modern cyberrevolution. At the time, it all seemed dangerously anarchic (and still does to many), but the counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire personal- computer revolution...