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...themselves. The Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan from the year it was founded, 1955, finally lost power in 1993 after one corruption scandal too many. Since then four successive, fragile coalitions have ruled. The current government, led by Ryutaro Hashimoto of the L.D.P., is committed to the status quo when it comes to economic reforms and other measures that are needed to revive Japan...
While the staff's proposal is a big improvement over the registrar's suggestion, there doesn't appear to be any good reason to change the status quo. One of the main benefits of making the alteration, the registrar contends, is that the problems associated with ending the spring exam period on Memorial Day weekend will be fixed. Huh? If exams now end on a Saturday and the motion moves the last final up by one day, then the laws of the calendar dictate that exams end on Friday--the beginning of Memorial Day weekend. Unless we're missing something...
...also don't have to worry about Saturdays or Memorial Day, and you get a real intersession--not the five- or six-day recovery period that exists right now. But Harvard's administrators never want to accept that point, so they may as well stay with the status quo...
...would have expected Brotman to oppose the status quo," said Coffey, referring to Hyman's current role as the council's president...
...PRESIDENTIAL RACE needs a working metaphor, a compass for the voters to steer by. In 1988 we got "competence vs. ideology," which meant "Whom do you want behind the desk when the phone rings and the Soviet empire collapses?" Then in 1992 we got "change vs. the status quo," which meant "Isn't it time to host a revolution of our own?" But now, as Bob Dole cinches his party's nomination to do battle with Bill Clinton, we find that the race is between two middlemen with rather similar ideas about what government should do, both committed to change...