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Curiously, all three women enter into friendships with Zenia entirely aware of her reputation. This principal conceit is the most glaring flaw in this generally good novel. Even Charis, resident healer and spiritual expert, who judges people based upon their aureal colors, can't seem to tell when Zenia's automatically destructive powers are levelled at her. At one point, these are described as "waves of ill will flow[ing] out of her like cosmic radiation...
Working with videotapes of the races, Butt scrutinized every detail of his crew, from the bladework and body position of his rowers to facial expressions--and discovered a technical flaw: at the catch, the stern of the boat was sinking below the water...
Thus, as the winter training season approached, the team had two main goals: master the new stroke and correct the flaw in their catch. The team trained extremely hard, with many double practices, but mastering it proved to be difficult...
...first-year program's single greatest flaw relates to its pace. The College assumes we can be made good writers in the space of a single semester of our first year. Within a few weeks, we must complete four essays (two drafts of each) and several smaller assignments. No sooner do we crank out four 10-to-12 pagers than the semester is over; our only certain improvement is our adroitness at fast writing. Instead of mastering the careful craft of revision, we are pushed into a cycle of the bi-weekly expos "all-nighter...
...moral ambivalence that allowed me to see a germ of truth in one of the remarks Mansfield made last week, a germ that probably went unnoticed by partisans on both sides. If there is one standing moral flaw in homosexuality that continues to cause morally ambivalent people concern and perhaps causes them to withhold their approval of homosexual love, it is the problem of procreation. Gays have proven themselves brilliantly in all but this sphere of social existence. Procreation, then, is not an issue that gay activists can afford to be morally flippant about, especially if they want...