Quite patently artificial," she said. "Looks like it to me, and I'm just a physicist." "I thought you were an engineer-pilot." "Hey, physicists can d… - Gregory Benford

Government doesn’t often move quickly, but when they do, it’s like an elephant stampede.

But in the divisions among students lay a deeper strategy. The administration practiced tactics of divide-and-conquer, turning each student faction into a client, supplicants to the ever-expanding executive corps who thought of themselves as “management,” of faculty as workers and students as captive customers. In this they merely mirrored the national political style, a legacy of the Twen Cen.

That’s how business works. There’s always somebody coming in on your blind side.