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Most IAB "regulars" play gaily and probably log more court time than Supreme Court justices. You can distinguish one of these veterans by his entrance. If he immediately asks the nearest bystander. "Who's got the next game?" then you can be sure he knows the ropes. And, of course, an IAB "regular" never schedules classes conflicting with available court time during the winter...
...orders or an act of Congress, the bureaucracy is often more of a hindrance than a help. "Managers feel they are so enmeshed in red tape that they cannot manage any more," says Jule Sugarman, vice chairman of the Civil Service Commission. Aside from directing an employee to the nearest coffeepot, there is little that a supervisor can do without encountering some cumbersome regulation. The 18 General Schedule (GS) grades of the civil service are largely insulated from outside pressure. An employee gets automatic pay increases just by remaining on the job. Additional raises are supposed to be based...
...Page added with a grin, "where's the nearest place around here to get a cold beer...
That same afternoon, the Harvard women's team served notice that it has arrived by winning the first women's indoor GBCs ever, beating five schools in the process, the nearest one by a ten point margin. Harvard had two firsts: Mary Howard in the 440, and the mile relay team of Howard, Anne Fine, Anne Bryan and Rian Smith...
...Auden once wrote: "Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of." Kafka has achieved a peculiar sort of extended immortality, alive not only in his books but also as an idea, an item of vocabulary employed by people who never read a phrase he wrote. It is an odd fate for the haunted functionary of the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute in Prague: his magnificent hallucinations have collapsed in the public mind...