Word: chimera
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...could "go to the country with this issue," that it would reinforce the party's image as strong on defense. The simultaneous decision to take the Iraq situation to the United Nations was also a campaign ploy-polls showed the vast majority of voters favored this course-and a chimera. Both Cheney and Rumsfeld were opposed to the move, and Rumsfeld pretty much ignored it: he proceeded full-speed ahead, deploying troops for a late-winter invasion...
...something that we track all that often.”So, if he’s not a slick, Hollywood soul-sucker, and he’s not a rabid fanatic, what sort of species is McCallum? He’s a rare chimera: someone who fervently believes that the films are legitimate art, but that their artistic merit comes from the very flashiness and simplicity for which they are so often written off as pieces of crass commercialism.Before addressing the more theoretical elements of McCallum’s approach to filmmaking, two sure-to-be-controversial revelations...
...such uses as important conferences and “Princetonian Idol”—just the type of student center that Harvard students have been looking for.But for as long as undergrads have been demanding it, a student center has been nothing more than a chimera. Today, however, things are changing. Relatively new faces at the College—such as Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, old fun czar Corker and new fun czar Haan—are more dedicated to improving the undergraduate experience than...
Interesting. If the rot was always there, why is it that these critics never said so before? They never suggested that we challenge these wobbly despots? In fact, they bitterly denounced the Bush doctrine for presuming to destabilize the region in pursuit of some democratic chimera? They opposed the Bush doctrine precisely because they preferred stability. They warned us darkly that the alternative to the status quo was the seething Arab street--an unruly mob, anarchic, anti-American, pan-Arabist or perhaps Islamist, ignorant of all liberal traditions and ready to rise up against America should it disturb the perfect...
Only at Harvard could a simple visit to a friend in Lowell House turn into a massive odyssey involving the Undergraduate Council, housemasters, broken promises and the chimera of Universal Keycard Access...