Word: correctible
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...suddenly, the elaborate plot of the bullshitter has been foiled. What? You mean using words like “juxtaposition” and “dichotomy” doesn’t automatically make my answer correct...
...guts to call a spade a spade. This behavior of overprotective parents has gone on far too long. Parents, shape up or ship out! School boards, hire superintendents with the courage to instill some discipline in students. Only when parents stop spoiling their children and administrators stop being "politically correct" will this bad behavior cease...
...Really, the ultimate goal of this [project] is to correct the trend of very wrong decisions that have been made the past couple of decades,” Kavulla says...
Since Wiener specifically takes aim at The Crimson, it’s hard to review his work without at least a twinge of defensiveness. And perhaps Wiener is correct that The Crimson blew the Thernstrom controversy out of proportion, contributing to the politicization of what was in reality a civil disagreement between a teacher and his students over a course syllabus. One chapter later, however, Wiener gets his facts flat-out wrong when he launches an unwarranted attack on Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the Phillips professor of early American history at Harvard...
...today's world, where aerial photographs can show us the precise location of Manhattan's manholes and the Internet can inform us in seconds how to travel most efficiently from Tiananmen Square to the Champs Elys?es, maps have become monotonously correct. Everyone can have them. Almost everyone can use them. But their precision and ubiquity have made them humdrum. They intrigue us only slightly more than garden shears and can openers...