In a comedy of manners set amid the chaos of modern Beijing, the characters have a hard time just keeping their heads.

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Outraged by scattered bomb plots and shifting values what seems to him the moral chaos of modern life Hoover senses that Americans need safety, or, at least, the illusion of safety, and he becomes the vessel of their protection, exercising and justifying, with ironclad rhetoric, his own dominance.

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But the evidence points in entirely the opposite direction: there are few demographic groups better equipped for dealing with the chaos of the modern workplace than active mothers.

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In a few paragraphs, Obama tied the ideals of the American Revolution to the notion of cooperative rather than individual action, and to its role in the building of the modern state, which is a bulwark against chaos.

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