Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight preliminary rounds of debate with the best 16 teams then continuing into the elimination rounds. In each debate, one team affirms the resolution, while the other team negates it. Sides are predetermined; seams that he prepared to debate both sides. The affirmative seam must analyze an inherent flaw in the status quo and propose a change within the resolution that will solve this problem...
...book's one lamentable flaw is its lack of pictures. Its subject is the substitution of careful observation for received opinion; the text would be enhanced if coupled with pictures to observe. Improvements in maps or changes in ideas of the human body cannot be expressed in words along. Nevertheless, The Discoverers makes a fine night table book--not like the coffee table book holding pretty pictures for amusing patter over cocktails, but offering a rich source of new ideas for adventuresome dreams. Matthew L. Meyerson
Amelia confutes the stereotypes of incest and most TV movies: there is no drunken, leering father and no happy ending. If anything, the characters err slightly on the side of restraint. The main flaw in this relentlessly flat and realistic approach lies in the written character of the social workers and psychologists who deal with the problem. They are all unrelievedly sympathetic. But this is a minor quibble. Amelia provides an exception to the network's tired formula for taboo breaking by avoiding prurience and comforting clich...
...doubt, ad hoc centrism is better than none. But it is at best a temporary and incomplete solution to a structural flaw in American politics. In the meantime, until it is corrected, until the liberal internationalist tradition can rebuild itself into a political force, we can look forward to more oscillatory democracy and, to dampen its abrupt left-right swings, more commissions...
...criticism of the government of Nicaragua is that the Sandinistas right from the beginning, forgot or ignored the contribution that others made to the changing of Somoza to the overthrow squads. They don't persecute them--they just made them irrelevant. And that's a tremendous mistake that will flaw then actions until they reorient their thinking. The idea that these reforms are making the Sandinistas more tractable and more ready for negotiations. I just don't believe is historically accurate. They've been starting their willingness to negotiate without condition on any subject that the United States chooses ever...