Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Crimson is wrong when it suggests that "the only way to eliminate...insensitivity is to [racially] integrate the places where it occurs." The placement of more Third World students in White-dominated institutions does little good if these students are not actively encouraged to express their points of view. Moreover, it represents an abdication of responsibility to claim that the only way for The Crimson to be more sensitive to Third World issues is for more Third World students to join The Crimson. The Crimson says, in other words, "It's your fault. You have to come...
...negotiations with the U.S.S.R. in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations have usually been carried out by Secretaries of State directly with longtime Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Former Ambassador to Moscow Malcolm Toon, a career diplomat for 33 years, thinks this exclusive use of the "Washington channel" is all wrong. Says Toon: "As I told Vance a couple of times, if Washington continues to behave the way it did in terms of using the American embassy in Moscow, they could just as well get along without an ambassador." Joe Sisco, who was twice offered the Moscow post by Richard Nixon...
...gave the guerrillas crucial support during the war. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere had earlier suggested that the British had rigged the vote in favor of Muzorewa. Celebrating Mugabe's victory with a champagne toast, Nyerere declared: "This is not the first time I have been proved wrong, and it is not the first time I'm very pleased that I'm wrong...
Know-it-alls come in two types: "real experts," who are right about 75% of the time, and "phony experts," who are inept and usually wrong. The real experts are highly valuable, but dogmatic, stubborn and often "so superior in tone that they make others feel useless." Co-workers who must face a know-it-all should do their homework carefully, and instead of arguing, ask "extensional" questions, such as "How will this approach work with our five lands of customers?" The questions may lead know-it-alls to see their errors because they are among the few troublemakers...
...legs, or at best, flipper-like appendages. The cause was traced to a sleep-inducing drug that the mothers had been taking during pregnancy-thalidomide. The U.S. escaped the disaster only because of the determination of a doctor at the Food" and Drug Administration who suspected that something was wrong with the drug. This British program is about one of thalidomide's victims and what happened after the headlines stopped...