Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...breathtaking scale: not just economic and political but also ecological, spiritual and, not surprising for an enterprise of such overweening hubris, moral. The deeper meaning of the overthrow of communism is the realization that man can shape neither history nor society by Five-Year Plans, and that attempts to contradict this truth must end in the grotesque. The revulsion with politics reflects the view that when politicians go about tinkering with something as organic as a poor family or a rural community by means of a federal welfare program or an enormous dam, the law of unintended consequences prevails...
...more than academic significance. His major discovery is that even as Young Boys Inc. and the Pony Down were unraveling in the mid- 1980s following the jailings of their leaders, they were being quickly and silently replaced by far more sophisticated and highly secretive business operations. Taylor's findings contradict the sanguine attitude of fifth-term Mayor Coleman Young and his political allies, who insist that the Motor City no longer has a serious gang problem. Says inspector Benny Napoleon, who monitors gang activity for the Detroit police: "We have nothing remotely resembling a large, well-organized gang...
...author also claims that student leadership in the CSA is so invisible that many Catholics are "indifferent" and "ignorant of the group's very existence." This seems to blatantly contradict his other claim that the students leadership is so visible that it eclipses the CSE chaplaincy...
...only do these two claims contradict each other, but they are also incorrect by themselves...
...military's argument that gays are incompatible with military service is wrong. There is no evidence to back it up, and overwhelming evidence to contradict it," said Berube, who has recently published a book on gay soldiers in World...