Word: aptness
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...this particular case, the group had been taking a day trip to the Demilitarized Zone when the soldier spotted Yin taking a photograph, something forbidden to do from the bus lest the tourists document undesirable aspects of the countryside. It was an apt reminder of the darker side of life in North Korea. Jieun Baek ’10, who as founder of the Harvard organization Human Rights in North Korea, has spoken to many North Koreans who managed to leave the country, explained the grim threat that lurks under everyday life. “Whatever...
...title of Remnick's opus refers to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the bloody origin point of a tide that swept the first black President into office 44 years later. But it is also an apt name for the story of Barack Obama's arc from youthful ambivalence to adult ambition, his struggle to reconcile his biracial roots and his attempt to build a political identity based on consensus rather than insistence. Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, has written an expansive work, as much an account of the forces that forged Obama's identity and intellect...
...lament about Mexico is that it's "so far from God, so close to the United States." These days it might be more apt to say that Mexico looks so far from Latin America. Mexico was once the region's vocero, its spokesman. But in the past decade, the country's diplomatic role seems to have fallen aside - apparent in Mexico's failure to engage with the coup crisis in Honduras last year - and has been assumed by its South American rival Brazil. In fact, says a senior Mexican official, President Felipe Calderón and his compatriots...
...that nobody has ever replicated was this idea of using technology to enhance privacy by encrypting the identities of the people whose data you're collecting. In terms of scale, he'd often described it as sort of a Manhattan Project for counterterrorism, and I think that was an apt description. (See "FBI Broke Privacy Laws, Says Justice Department Probe...
...first is an explicit rejection of progressive philosophy. Until recently, progressivism was stowed on a dusty shelf of history, but many Democrats now embrace the label in place of the term liberal. It's an apt adoption. Like many Democrats today, the progressives of a century ago believed in the ability of social-science-minded intellectuals to analyze civic problems and engineer a way for government to tackle them. Tea Partyers say that belief, an integral part of the Obama team's mind-set, is crazy, even dangerous. They believe problems are better solved by individual efforts than through government...