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...could have uttered. "I was not fully informed," Ronald Reagan told the reporters he summoned to a special briefing last Tuesday. In an attempt to defend himself from suspicion of complicity in the biggest scandal to threaten Washington since Watergate, he thus highlighted the most fundamental flaw in his stewardship of the presidency, one that could undermine his effectiveness for the remaining two years of his term...
Good Grades, Basic Flaw...
Doolittle says that Harvard students are intelligent, but far too diligent. "There are depressingly few poor attitudes here. If I were the admissions office, I would make sure that some people had poor attitudes. Good grades in high school can be a possible indication of a basic flaw," he explains...
...emits will be incredibly powerful -- strong enough to push surrounding gases and dust incredible distances away from the loop. With Witten and Graduate Student Chris Thompson, Ostriker went to work calculating the effects of the waves. "Again and again," he says, "we thought we had found a fatal flaw, that the whole thing was crackers. But we haven't so far." A string loop, it seemed, could theoretically produce an awesome void...
...newfound view of the Soviets as possibly malleable rivals has combined with his deeply held conviction that Russians as human beings cannot help succumbing to the irresistible benefits of American democratic capitalism. This remarkable inner confidence -- both in himself and in the system he champions -- may be the fatal flaw in the Reagan approach to the Soviets, although it served him well in Geneva in his first encounter with Gorbachev...