From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   Steve Coltrin wrote:   
   > begin  fnord   
   > William Hyde  writes:   
   >   
   >> Very early on in Second Foundation we see the leaders of that   
   >> organization squabbling among themselves, fighting turf wars like any   
   >> other bureaucrats.   
   >   
   > Suppose he modelled them on faculty politics at Boston University?   
   >   
   That could well be the case. According to his autobiography he did have   
   some problems with the administration.  And there is something vaguely   
   academic about the scene.   
      
   However, I've been in a lot of faculty meetings, and the greatest threat   
   is the person who feels that the meeting isn't over until he/she has   
   said something, however irrelevant that something is. And when there are   
   two or three such persons ...   
      
   But maybe we were a laid back bunch.   
      
   William Hyde   
      
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