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...mystery--and perhaps some of the stigma--may finally be starting to lift. The more researchers learn about dyslexia, the more they realize it's a flaw not of character but of biology--specifically, the biology of the brain. No, people with dyslexia are not brain damaged. Brain scans show their cerebrums are perfectly normal, if not extraordinary. Dyslexics, in fact, seem to have a distinct advantage when it comes to thinking outside...
...course, the commercials have a rather glaring flaw. As the camera pans the landscape, a mountain appears. We have lots of fields and trees in Michigan, but we most certainly do not have any mountains. The commercials were actually shot in New Zealand in January—I guess winter in Michigan would not yield the appropriate “harvest.” Still, it’s a shame that our own scenery couldn’t be recognized...
DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK-ARTS TEACHER: Remus Lupin, a sympathetic and skillful wizard with a magic--er, tragic flaw...
...Dogs of Babel is a neatly, almost perfectly constructed novel, but its flawlessness is also its biggest flaw. It's too pretty: it lacks the messiness of reality, and as a result it feels smaller than life, like a nifty short story spun out to feature length, a tragedy staged in a shoebox. It's the difference between cute and beautiful. What The Dogs of Babel lacks is the raw, sobbing rage that powered The Lovely Bones, that left it with ragged edges, that made it howl and that made it great--and that left readers, reviewers and editors alike...
...speaking his mind, I welcome his desire to invigorate the sciences, and I think he is a dynamic leader who effects change. My worry is that Summers is overly concerned with Harvard’s role in society as a research institution, which leads him to the deeper flaw of failing to appreciate the importance of the humanities...