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Principal Jerry Baca resigned over the winter holidays, and the school's administration has been patchworked together since.
At the heart of the problem was another instance of strategic incoherence, unclear guidance, lack of coordination, shifting presidential goals and priorities, and the patchworked administrative structures, procedures, and funding shortfalls produced by the pursuit of three competing White House goals pursued administratively: speeding up cleanups while simultaneously setting up analytically objective priorities and increasing citizen participation.
This now becomes an interpretative key that explains everything "bad" about Pericles, namely, that the effect of badness comes from Shakespeare teaching himself to write like a botched and patchworked old script: to carefully stumble, to punctiliously ruin the flow of his paragraphs with fatally-placed internal couplets, conscientiously flattening his emergent rich late medium into a grey fustian rhythmically and verbally forty years out of date.
 
 
 
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