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This means that most students also understand the fatal flaw in the NC model: the assumed reliability of the network itself. Students who use the Internet for Web browsing and e-mail can live with "Site Not Found" and "Mail Server Unavailable" errors most of the time...
...February 12), I don't quite have an answer to this query, though Jeffrey Vanke seems to have read my essay as if I was offering a firm answer. What I was presenting was a way of searching for an answer. For this, to my mind, was the major flaw in Rev. Peter Gomes' formulations: he merely asserts an answer or solution---ex cathedra--without showing us the interplay of moral and operational steps. In Professor Gomes' view, it ought to be self-evident that the time has arrived (more than one century) for lifting the moral burden of blame...
...Republicans stretching back to Barry Goldwater who have attacked government as the cause of the country's problems. Dismantling government, they promise, will improve the economic well-being of all Americans by reducing taxes and regulations and free the capitalist economy to generate new wealth for everyone. The inherent flaw in this prescription, Dionne argues, is that it implies the free market is the way and the light. He predicts that government, as it did at the dawn of the progressive age back at the turn of the century, will again have to be strengthened as a counterweight...
However, it is this same impassioned acting which ultimately leads to the musical's prominent flaw. The surplus of melodramatic overacting gets tiresome. Every character who appears on the stage for more than three minutes is immediately assigned a scene in which he can showcase his abundant lung capacity in a fit of uncontrollable anger, or a shuddering, tearful breakdown. And each emotional tidal wave produces a sage, if somewhat cliched, statement of advice that could be applied to Jacob Zulu, South Africa and the world...
...business runs: badly, most of the time. John Michael Higgins does a good job mimicking Letterman's cigar-chomping crankiness, but he's too energetic. Daniel Roebuck has the chin (with the help of prosthetics), but turns Leno into a simpering moron." But the fatal flaw of "The Late Shift" is that its recreation of an television insider story seems the height of self-absorption. "'The Late Shift' is a parade of TV executives known to few in the audience, but all scrupulously identified onscreen as if this were a documentary on the Vietnam peace talks. (Look, it's John...