Word: developable
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...established. Yet Naipaul, who is praised for seeing things so clearly, saw none of India's strengths. Although his vision of the country has grown progressively more sympathetic, the idea that India's economy would one day become one of the world's most dynamic, that it would develop an outsourcing industry that would affect everyday life in America and Europe, is beyond the conception of Naipaul's journalism...
...lots of ground to cover. But as we speed-read our way through the semester, the acquisition of critical judgment does not always seem to be the priority. Save for the concentrated spurt of penning an essay, we do not always have the time, nor do we learn to develop the patience, to dissect arguments, to grapple with difficult texts or theoretical problems we encounter. Sections face the absurd task of making 15 or more people reflect on 100 pages of dense writings in under an hour. No wonder they are often a farce, and, in a popular definition, more...
...learning to think, that, in the words of Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, “Our students need to be taught the very process of introspection, a process lost amid the external pressures of career success.” Professor Vendler proposes that each student develop a list each year of books to read for pleasure, in order to develop a life-long excitement about reading and thought. The idea is well-meant, but seems quaint, considering the present reading overload to which we are subjected. Vendler worries that Harvard is not teaching us the “pleasurable...
Saddam was awed by science and impressed by the way technology conveyed military power. To him, WMD were a telling symbol of strength and modernity, and he thought any country that could develop them had an intrinsic right to do so. In his experience, through 25 years and two wars, WMD had also saved his neck. In the 1980s war with Iran, he concluded that chemical shells had repelled the enemy's human-wave attacks and that ballistic missiles had broken the will of its leaders. He was convinced that his readiness to use WMD during the Gulf...
WHAT WE THOUGHT THEN Intelligence officials were convinced that after the first Gulf War, Saddam had secretly retained a few dozen Scud-variant missiles, capable of traveling almost 600 miles, and was actively working to develop other long-range delivery systems...