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...administration has attempted to divide Harvard into "business" and "university" camps. The business camp deals with the outside world: funding, tenure and major educational initiatives. The university camp concentrates on teaching and learning. When the two camps collide, the Administration has no modus operandi which it seeks to follow. For the administration has little interest in and provides no channels for consensus-building discussion on the issues it sees as being distinct from the daily interests of students, faculty and alumni...
Both because of its irrational and chronic proclivity toward hitting tiny nails with the largest hammer it can find, and because of its fascist modus operandi, the Administrative Board must be abolished. Likewise, as we have said, the Vietnam-war era Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--which is periodically trotted out solely to punish left-wing political demonstrators without benefit of appeal to another court--must go as well...
...senior-citizen murders" have certain characteristics that may make them easier to solve than the Atlanta child slayings. Unlike the earlier case, the murders have all taken place during a brief period of time in a circumscribed geographic area; the modus operandi has not varied. Says Langford: "This will not stretch out like the missing and murdered children." Elderly women pray that he is right...
...level of discourse emanating from our capital last week in the wake of the overcovered and mostly inconsequential first-ever meeting between Reagan and a senior Kremlin official. No one doubts the existence of political cynicism in years divisible by four, and certainly political cynicism was the modus operant of the day; the Reaganauts have an election to win, after all, and the Russians world opinion to placate. Only in an Administration which pushes for high-level meeting in its fourth year, which signs no arms-control agreement, and which deep-sixes no arms-control agreements, and which deep-sixes...
...gang's modus operandi was direct and effective: two young men, disguised with wigs, hats, glasses, false beards and mustaches, and black stage makeup, would enter the banks wielding guns. While one commandeered the lobby, shouting profanities and racial slurs, the other would leap over the counter and scoop up the money. Outside, a man in a business suit waited calmly in the getaway car, a gray Mercedes. Said Sacramento Police Sergeant Jim Rodenbaugh: "They were the most intimidating, sophisticated, active group I've ever dealt with...