just to hazard a flippant comment in this direction -- institutions/systems are abstractions in service of people organizing their actions together, and where these abstractions break down are at the boundaries.
The usual rules don't apply, and the pun is intended, because it is yet a strong, provisional, situated, and unsupported claim.
-- Bill Barowy, Associate Professor Lesley University 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790 Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169 http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/Barowy.html _______________________ "One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly become the author of something beautiful." [Norman Maclean in "A river runs through it."]
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