Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sebastian, the brother of Alonso, King of Naples certainly holds some potential for subversive entertainment. But in this production of The Tempest, that potential is never realized. The fault lies not with the interpretations themselves, but with sheer carelessness and bad acting. What the text clearly demands, the actor fail to supply...
...getting rid of achievement tests, the ETS is striking a blow against diversity. We used to be able to choose which subjects we would actually achieve in and which we would most definitely fail. Now these Princeton sadists are telling students that they have to be good at everything...
What many non-Catholic and Catholic Americans alike fail to understand is the nature of a non-democratic institution such as the Church. Change is much slower in such a body; it simply cannot react to social change as fast as a democratic legislature can, so Americans often find its apparent resistance to reform to be completely alien. However, the institution does evolve to meet the demands of its people and is constantly in a process of gradual reform...
Yeltsin and his aides predict that Gorbachev's halfway measures will fail, forcing the Soviet President to adopt the 500-day plan after all. But for the moment the controversy is coming close to open economic war. The Russian parliament last week passed a law placing all property in Russian territory, except that belonging to the Soviet military or the KGB, under its control. Gorbachev had earlier got the Supreme Soviet to grant him power to fire the heads of businesses that refuse to obey orders from the central government. It remains to be seen which jurisdiction can make...
Neither Bush nor any of his governing brotherhood -- Baker, Cheney, Powell, Scowcroft, Sununu -- were at the Tuesday luncheons in the 1960s when a swaggering Johnson thumped a map with his forefinger and unleashed massive American power -- only to fail. Many of the current members of Congress were in grade school when the Vietnam commitment climbed to 540,000 troops. Some of the television reporters now graphically describing the Iraqi commitment on the nightly news were not even born back then. This is a time to let history speak and then to listen to its warnings...