Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...house system isn't everything Harvard says it is, and we have been critical, of "house life" in the past. But integration into one of the houses, however imperfect they may be, is surely preferable to being left out in the cold...
Stripped of its pious rhetoric, Muldoon argues, the council's resolution amounts to a "condemnation of the entire history of the modern world." As such, it represents a peculiar form of intellectual masochism, selectively judging the past by the imperfect standards of the present. Moreover, even sweeping apologies for historical sins are unlikely to satisfy the angry advocates of belated justice for Native Americans, some of whom would settle for nothing less than canceling the festivals entirely...
...long as the U.S. was involved in relatively small operations with few casualties, like the invasions of Grenada and Panama, it did not seem to matter much that the armed forces were an imperfect mirror of society. The prospect of sizable bloodshed in the gulf, however, has led some to ask whether the current imbalance makes it too easy for the President and Congress to send forces into battle. "If the U.S. military were truly representative of the country, you would have people going through the roof right now," said former Navy Secretary James Webb two weeks...
...readily admit that I am not the best Catholic or the best liberal. I am very human; thus I am often very wrong. Likewise, the institution of the church has made many mistakes through the centuries. But as the Bible makes clear, any human institution is imperfect because of the weaknesses of people, not of the faith behind...
...cheers, anyway. Because this is not the revolution that I, at least, signed on for. When the feminist movement burst forth a couple of decades ago, the goal was not just to join 'em -- and certainly not just to beat 'em -- but to improve an imperfect world. Gloria Steinem sketched out the vision in a 1970 TIME Essay titled "What It Would Be Like If Women Win." What it would be like was a whole lot better, for men as well as women, because, as she said right up front, "Women don't want to exchange places with...