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...nothing new in the proposition that Marxism is riven with contradictions as fatal to the system as they are brutal to its subjects. For decades critics of Communism have been saying that the party has no legitimacy; that its claims of representation are a tattered veil for its true function of repression; that for all their apparent obedience, passivity and discipline, many or even most of the populace are not just unhappy but deeply angry and increasingly overt in their defiance...
...council members and other fellow students criticize him. "I know I'm trying my best, and I know and expect people to criticize me personally on something controversial," he says. "If you take these things personally it kind of breaks you down and makes it almost impossible to really function...
College officials said the rules were also intended to fulfill an academic function because they believed restricting the times during which women could enter the Houses would help maintain peaceful and undistracting study hours...
...Harvard, a fine line sets the campus police force apart from a department serving an ordinary town. Larger than many municipal police departments in the state, University police must respond to break-ins, robberies and domestic disputes. But officers also function as monitors of student behavior...
...fellow scientists who have done things too much in a hurry." Charles C. Baker, director of fusion research at Argonne National Laboratory, was blunter: "Calling press conferences and making claims of results without having a well-prepared technical report is not the way for a good, professional scientist to function...