"Randall Collins", Ph.D. is an American sociologist who is a Sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a member of the Advisory Editors Council of the Social Evolution & History journal. He is a leading contemporary social theorist whose areas of expertise include the macro-historical sociology of political and economic change; micro-sociology, including face-to-face interaction; and the sociology of intellectuals and social conflict. He is considered to be one of the leading non-Marxist Conflict theory/conflict theorists in the United States.

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This kind of controversy is actually pretty frequent. It pretty typically arises because several people are working in the same area and examining the same thing.

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The Friendship School has been a success, a big success. Many of the solutions for educational funding are going to rest on a regional basis.

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We feel a whole lot better than we did last week.

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It was a very emotional day yesterday.

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It's a very painful day for the Waterford schools.

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People, and particularly people's partisans, can build the [controversy] up, maybe more than the individuals involved in it themselves.

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It will give middle school students more choices.

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