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...acting in “The Way of the World” encompasses as many shifts in mood as its staging does in tone. It is a difficult play to understand on the page, and even more so when the words are flying by the audience at breakneck speed. More than in most plays, how things are said in “The Way of the World” is at least as important as the lines themselves...
...understand that there's always collective responsibility. And so what obligation does the policymaker have to get underneath something? We have priority responsibility. I have priority responsibility on WMD. Let's not shirk our responsibility. What's your responsibility? What's your responsibility? You know, make sure that you understand that we're in the right place, and make sure you understand the texture with which you're doing it. So I find it to be, you know, I find it to be a little bit disingenuous to say, "Well, let's let it all on them when it goes...
...trying to understand why medicine is imperfect and how one navigates that world either as a doctor who is trying to learn the skills along the way or as someone just trying to think about what should happen in medicine from any vantage point,” he says...
...Central to this principle is his concept of the “positive deviant” in medicine—a person who simply outperforms others in his or her field. It is Gawande’s project in “Better” to understand why some people or institutions in medicine are great while others are just, well, okay...
...curiosity of the reader and allows him to overlook Zimbardo’s occasionally poorly worded phrase or tendency to dwell on a tangentially related subject.In the end, these defects feel less like defects and more like the idiosyncratic quirks of a charming explorer who desperately wants us to understand a new and terrifying world that he’s discovered. —Reviewer Eric W. Lin can be reached at ericlin@fas.harvard.edu...