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...American Revolution did not erupt overnight. A long series of protests, such as the Boston Tea Party and the Harvard graduation of 1768--all the graduates wore clothing made of American cloth--should have given the House of Commons ample warning of the unrest. Yet prejudice against the colonists and their abilities, and the false sense of superiority in the British government, created the blunders that caused the American revolution, Tuchman argues...
...future there would be those countries that were information producers and those that were just consumers," says Colonel Joubert de Oliveira Brizida, director of the Brazilian agency that sets data-processing policy. "We knew we couldn't become a full-fledged member of the international computer club overnight, but we didn't want to be left behind completely...
...think it is very difficult to change any organization overnight, even it school of Ed.," says Laura A. Cooper, a third-year doctoral student who plans to enter the public schools as an administrator. "But it's important to recognize that the programs and activities that have been put into effect are very important first steps toward bringing the Ed School closer to the real world...
...battle at Harvard climaxed with the April 1969 occupation of University Hall--but political activism at the University did not rise overnight. Tension had been growing for several years. In 1967, 71 students pledged to refuse the draft: when Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara came to speak at the Institute of Politics and refused to debate an anti-war spokesman, 800 students blocked his car and McNamara escaped through the University's underground tunnels...
There are problems with bringing charges, the FBI admits. While an investigation into mail or wire fraud can take up to two years, an alert diploma salesman can move on to a new location almost overnight. Charles Alfred Durham, 54, of Seneca, S.C., who has been charged with mail fraud in connection with three diploma mills, has a clever defense: that the diplomas, costing up to $940 for a doctorate, were only "expensive novelties." Says Durham's lawyer, Daniel Day: "People who bought these diplomas knew exactly what they were getting, and I don't think...