Word: failureã
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...Brown does, to drop classes until final examination period starts, which virtually ensures that students can escape any responsibility for their academic performance. It is also necessary to remind ourselves that being forced to struggle through difficult work—even when the end result is underperformance or failure??has value, however painful it may be. Nevertheless, the drop/add period is invaluable in allowing the intellectually curious to explore subjects without fear of being locked into a class that they later regret taking. We hope Harvard students take the intellectual risks that this important policy facilitates...
...certain death by welcoming him into their ship. A kick-dance celebration among new friends ensues aboard the ship to the insightful lyrics, “We are North American scum / We are North Americans.” Their celebration is short-lived, though; a “critical failure?? occurs and an aberrational gravitational field pulls the band into a psychedelically animated warp zone of fun. Dropping them off in a room filled with autumn foliage and motionless alter egos of the band members, the video reaches its logically illogical conclusion. At first annoying, then perhaps amusing...
...culture of failure?? is a departure from the legacy of the civil rights movement, Williams writes in his strongest, most essential argument. He backs it up by recounting both the courageous sacrifices made by students in Little Rock and Oxford to gain access to all white schools, as well as the heartbreaking assault and robbery of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks by a black youth who broke into her Detroit home...
...Williams lays blame for the “culture of failure?? at the feet of America’s black leadership, and his criticisms seem on the mark. He excoriates civic leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and political leaders like former Washington Mayor Marion Barry and former Newark Mayor Sharpe James...
...Asked at the end of his presentation about his feelings toward the United Nations and its role in the Rwandan genocide, Rusesabagina quietly rejected the possibility of effective international action on the part of the U.N.. “The United Nations has proved to be a failure??hopeless,” he said. “I cannot tell you that I have faith in the United Nations anymore.” Rusesabagina, who has received both the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, ended his address with an emotional...