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...challenged the political system he wanted to control, understanding that the most important qualification for the most powerful job in the world was wanting it. After him, no one else wanted to wait either -- neither young Negroes in Nashville, Tennessee, nor young charmers in Arkansas -- and few institutions were rigid enough or flexible enough to survive. When he was asked early in 1960 why he thought he should be President, he answered, "I look around me at the others in the race, and I say to myself, 'Well, if they think they...
...University should be unable to reach anagreement with MIT and if the government's policyremains in effect, the administration will ceasepayment of the MIT fee beginning with studentsentering the University in 1994. This date is atarget, and not a rigid requirement, says thereport...
Under the pretext of examining generational change, "Household Saints" offers us little insight or amusement. Instead of evolving through struggle to balance the experiences of old world and new, the characters in this movie oscillate back and forth from rigid traditionalism to moderation and back again...
...Expos program's hopelessly misguided four-year rule, which Marius introduced in 1989 without a grandfather clause, resulted from his desire to quash dissent on the faculty. Other teaching positions at Harvard, including junior faculty appointments, carry term limits, but few are so rigid. Most preceptor positions in foreign language and math programs last eight years; stellar teachers have the opportunity to remain at Harvard much longer, with periodic reviews...
...week Crimson investigation into Expos found an Expository Writing Program with policies that create trenchant personnel problems, resist oversight and hurt the quality of teaching. A rigid hierarchy allows little input from teachers and slows the program's responses to concerns raised by students and teachers...