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Supporting the status quo may be unfashionable at Harvard, but some of us actually like having finals after the winter break...
...Weld was one of two governors of the country who failed to mention health care in [his] 1993 State of the State address, and he failed to discuss the topic again in 1994," Barrett says. "I became convinced watching Weld dealing with ethics that he would be a status quo governor--complacent about business as usual...
...suggest that all human existence is an improvisatory rehearsal for some grand opening night that may never arrive. Panic is the universal language. And yet, as Ives shows, rewriting life can produce a happy ending. Destiny may be, as his Trotsky says, "only a capitalist explanation for the status quo," but it can also be a sure thing. As two lovers, rapturous in bed at the beginning (and of course at the end) of another Ives play, Ancient History, dreamily say, If their happiness could be bottled, "the world would be littered with empties...
This is an attractive vision. But honesty compels me to say that if the choice is between the status quo and Clinton or Canada, I take the status quo. The American health system is the best in the world. It has saved the life of people I know, more and more of them as I grow older. I'm not going to dilute it to please some power-tripping bureaucrat who got his law degree when Abbey Road was released...
...Burkhart, a senior purchasing executive delegated by Smith to oversee the creativity groups: "Whenever we used to see a roadblock, we'd hide, duck or find a way to do other things and not get beat up. Now our youngest people are being empowered to challenge the status quo...