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...just follow your logic all the way through. I would say that, my God, you'd better cut out general elections too, because they're certainly not scientific either. How do I even know that a cross section of America shows up to vote? My God, we have a flaw in the system. We'd better go to polling to select our candidates, right? Just follow your logic all the way down to the ridiculous end, and you come out there...
...book's one flaw -- oddly enough, given its thesis -- is that Greider works too hard to achieve a rationally analytical prose style. His one first- person chapter on newspapers (winningly contrasting his early days on the blue-collar Cincinnati Post with the mature Ivy League-dominated Washington Post) serves as a road-not-taken reminder that in the struggle to express ideas -- as well as in the battle for political rectitude -- personal experience beats position papers hands down...
...Southern Observatory consist of a single, vast expanse of glass, thin (17.7 cm) and very flexible. To control wobbling and stabilize the orientation, these mirrors, like giant catcher's mitts, will be constantly readjusted by 180 computer-activated steel "fingers." A prototype mirror has already proved its worth. A flaw identical to the one that crippled the Hubble Space Telescope was easily corrected by adjusting the mirror's shape...
...truly loves Douglas. Finally, the film breaks faith with the most inviolable convention of the whodunit -- refusing to state firmly which of the two women dunit (notwithstanding gay activists' confident naming of one of them, in a publicity campaign aimed at undermining the movie). This reflects its fundamental flaw of arrogance, a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels. It is its attitude, not its morality, that ultimately undoes Basic Instinct...
...glaring flaw for the Harvard squad was its inability to maintain its intensity in the late stages of the game...