Word: inferiority
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...bear fruit. Such privileging of autonomy extends from a series of judgments latent in contemporary common wisdom about morality—first, that each person should be free to pursue his desires so long as he does not harm anyone else; second, that such desires cannot be judged inferior to those of someone else. Taken together, these two judgments mean that health-care reform is incompatible with our national moral ethos. Public option or not, finding some way to extend care to the uninsured requires at least some sacrifice by those who are adequately covered under the current system...
Ultimately, the Snow translation is no Mitchell. Mitchell provided us with a Rilke that far surpassed anything that came before it. Snow, although inferior to Mitchell, has nevertheless crafted a body of translations that, had Mitchell not already done so, would have easily become “the” way to read Rilke in English...
Here comes a great course offered by [name redacted], Alfred and Melinda Prufrock Professor of Common Decency at Harvard University: Common Decency 10 - How to Ask for Help (no 101's at Harvard, that is for inferior schools. Thanks to the genuine numbering system, Harvard is the best college in the country...
...clear that our health-care system needs improvement, but many average Americans do not trust the government to do the job. A large part of the reason may be that what Congress designs for us is guaranteed to be, as with Social Security and retirement plans, vastly inferior to what they create for - and bestow upon - themselves. Kenneth Solnit, Cupertino, Calif...
Cornell: 1. An inferior school somewhere way west of Cambridge. 2. The one hockey game of the year you shouldn’t miss...