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[KakaJaja]

Hey all, I have some difficulty in eliminating C.

At the end of the passage, the author criticized TJ about not giving concrete solution, "despite his own descriptions of the complicated bureaucratic nature of the programs".

I think that pointing out lots of problems without providing solutions may be one manifestation of bureaucracy? So there is contradiction between what he said and what he did?

Do I misunderstand sth? THANKS!

[bbirdwell]

I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting... but I'll say this:

The entire passage, with the exception of the last sentence is entirely positive and supportive of Tollefson's work. And the last sentence merely says "he doesn't offer enough solutions."

So we need an answer that says "it was awesome, and he could've done better!"

This overall picture clearly supports B.

For C, we have no evidence that his work was contradictory -- notice how much you had to *imagine* in order to try and justify C... the passage does not define the manifestation of bureaucracy that you mentioned. That kind of imagining is a tell-tale sign that we're looking at an incorrect answer.

[YT]

I also stalled at the meaning of contradictory when I was doing that section. But what suggests passage is that Tollefsen did not provide a clear walkthrough of his proposed solution, not that he provided a solution which is as complicated as the one that he criticized. In the latter case, I think, we would have a better support to believe that the author labels Tollefsen's work as contradictory, but with this version, it's more fitting to assume that the author would label it as incomplete. That was my line of reasoning, hope that's satisfactory for other people too.