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...group decision we make involves compromise, which can produce frustration and a belief that one's opinion does not count. Individuals sometimes drop out of the discussion, unwilling to participate. At the end of a long debate, we sometimes joke that we have "had enough of democracy" and would prefer to elect a dictator to speed our efforts...
...general, we try to limit section-switching to those students who have a legitimate conflict rather than those who simply would prefer a more convenient time slot," he writes...
...conversation about politically correct terms, one scribbler asks, "What do black people prefer...
...Some people don't want to do it. They prefer the freedom of departmental courses, where they can teach whatever they want and no one looks over the syllabi," says Fernandez-Cifuentes...
...have to change the entire system, step by step, until liberty. We demand economic reform, we demand freedom, we want to live in dignity." Milosevic's bill ceding the 14 election victories to the opposition has been submitted to parliament. And that, clearly, is where those in power would prefer for the matter to be addressed. "Nothing can be solved in the streets," said Aleksandar Vulin of Mirjana Markovic's Yugoslav United Left, charging opposition members to end their boycott of parliament. "If (protests) continue forever . . . then you must expect the state to defend itself." But opposition leaders fear that...