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...some device that hasn't been invented. Like that of the telephone system before it, the power of the information highway will come from the new ways it allows people to connect, not with machines but with each other. And for that privilege, even the most stubborn couch potato might agree to get wired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play...Fast Forward...Rewind...Pause U.S. Firms Want to Wire America for Two-Way Tv, But Their Systems Are Not Yet Ready for Prime Time | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

Garofalo called the Faculty "stubborn" and"selfish" in their rejection of the plan, whichwas the product of months of negotiation betweenstudents and Registrar Georgene B. Herschbach...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Calendar Reform Killed by Filled by Faculty | 5/20/1994 | See Source »

Muller is able to ask intelligent questions about Riefenstahl's work because he himself is a director, but this common identity is also the cause of friction between the two. Riefenstahl is still serious about filmmaking, and she is an stubborn as any other director who has an artistic vision. Some of the more amusing parts of the film occur when Muller and Riefenstahl argue about he best way to make certain scenes work...

Author: By Emil J. Kiehne, | Title: It's a Wonderful, Horrible Life | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

Indeed, the stubborn criminal defiantly attended last night's city council meeting, despite calls for his resignation from several of his fellow councillors...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Guilty Walsh Defies Calls for Resignation | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

...protester's sign on March 5 displays Harvard's "report card," giving the administration an "A" for "evasion" and an "F" for "action" on the issue of minority faculty hiring The underlying message is that Harvard's faculty is not diverse due to institutionalized racism and stubborn, reactionary administrators...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: The Real Diversity Problem | 4/5/1994 | See Source »

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