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Stage One is fear. You don't know what you're doing, and if you did, you wouldn't feel capable of doing it. You work tentatively, look at the outgoing editors with a quasi-religious reverence and wonder if everyone would be better off if you quit...
...Tory answer is, "Why wonder?" Among Conservatives, it's called the "Coke strategy," and John Major puts it this way: "If you have to choose between a real Conservative Party and a quasi-Conservative Party, where Labour says one thing but the party's heart and soul is elsewhere, then I believe people will go for the real thing...
Happy is the man who rules his market, especially one as lucrative as Vance Opperman's. As president of West Publishing, the quasi-official publisher of court decisions, he has earned a fortune. And so when his empire was threatened in 1994 by potential competition from, of all places, the Justice Department, he called in a little help from his friends in Washington...
Erik Larson's investigative report about why college tuition is so high was right on the money [EDUCATION, March 17]. The miserly mentality of universities and colleges regarding their endowments, the practice of charging whatever the traffic will bear and the history of quasi legal collusion by the Ivy League's Overlap Group are disturbing. What concerns me even more is that these are supposed to be the top U.S. colleges--icons of leadership and principle. But they are behaving like a bunch of followers. They protect their bottom line while they try to impress prospective students and "look...
...their children may encounter on the electronic frontier. As a readily accessible soapbox, the Net attracts the same groups that have always tacked pamphlets on grocery store and college bulletin boards and placed tiny ads in the backs of journals to get the word out. As disturbing as the quasi-philosophical blather on the Heaven's Gate website may be, it never got much attention until the networks and Internet publishers (including Pathfinder) sought it out as legitimate news in the wake of the deaths. As far as anyone has been able to determine, the Heaven's Gate cult used...