Word: answerability
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...answer wasn’t in how smart, necessarily, people were,” he says. “It had much more to do with how they approached their own fallibility. There are some at the top of the bell curve who have abilities to look at their flaws and ask hard questions not only about their flaws, but at the systems around them, and then to continually focus effort and resources on how to overcome those flaws...
...people when incarcerated. “If you put good people in a bad place, do the people triumph or does the place corrupt them?” he recalls asking himself. In the important and captivating “The Lucifer Effect,” Zimbardo attempts to answer this question and explore its many disturbing implications. Any attentive psychology student can tell you what happened with the experiment: The situation got ugly very quickly. During the Thursday night-shift after the initial Sunday faux-arrests, the prison guards began forcing the male prisoners to engage in simulated sodomy...
...Senate, a move that, aides say, she had hoped to put off until later in the election season, considering she was just reelected to a second term last fall. Clinton's Senate record - and particularly the skill she has shown working across party lines - has been her answer to those who say she is too polarizing to be elected. But as former majority leader Bob Dole and others have learned, the chamber isn't an ideal base from which to run a Presidential campaign...
...runs, no errors. The much-anticipated first "debate" of the 2008 Democratic candidates Thursday night at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C., was a polite event - and not a particularly enlightening one. Part of the problem was the format, in which candidates were limited to 60-second answers and not allowed to engage each other. Part of it was the sheer number of people onstage: eight candidates in all. But after 90 minutes, it was hard to pick out a single memorable answer. The only thing made clearer is why the candidates, who are facing scores of requests...
...biggest laugh of the night when moderator Brian Williams brought up his well-deserved reputation for talking too much and committing gaffes. "Can you reassure voters in this country that you would have the discipline you would need on the world stage, Senator?" Williams asked. Biden's answer: "Yes." Which was followed by a long, pregnant silence...