Word: blunderer
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...even sadder when you consider the extraordinary role that the same universities—particularly…Harvard—played in promoting meritocracy in the first half of the 20th century.” The legacy “feather,” then, is a public-relations blunder of Summers-esque proportions. It casts a shadow upon Harvard’s sincere commitment to meritocracy. Why would alumni want to see their alma mater dragged through the mud on account of a policy with such marginal practical benefit...
Admirable bipartisanship. Democrats have the country with them against the war in Iraq but aren't acting to end it. Why? This war is the major blunder in American foreign policy. We ought to free ourselves from our troop involvement. But if you look back on Vietnam, it wasn't until 1973 that we passed the resolution that actually halted troops and money. There's no question that this is a slow-moving institution, and it's no new statement to say that we are behind what's happening out in the countryside...
...article "Nakasone's World-Class Blunder" [EDUCATION, Oct. 6] contains errors. First, you claim that H.H. Goddard "insisted that on the basis of IQ scores vast numbers of Italian, Jewish and Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group...
Many observers were dismayed at the arrests of Badal and Tohra. The daily Hindustan Times editorialized that the jailings were a "costly blunder" likely only to push the two Sikh leaders closer to terrorist elements. Gandhi vigorously defended the arrests, saying the "toughest and most aggressive" measures were needed. But by jailing moderate and militant alike, the Prime Minister seemed for the moment to have abandoned his 25-month search for a political solution to the Punjab problem...
...Still, the missile test may yet prove a strategic blunder for the mainland, argues Kurt Campbell, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former top-level U.S. defense department official. "The fundamental principle of China's foreign policy for the last three or four years has been to do nothing that will alert the world to China's arrival as a world power," Campbell says. The test, while sending a clear signal to Taiwan about China's capabilities, may also embolden American neoconservatives who want the U.S. to aggressively challenge China's military and economic...