Word: flaws
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...failure to recognize the distinct phenotypes and personalities of two people of the same race. This instinct is an admirable one. But it seems dangerous to conflate the two problems: the lack of an attuned eye with the lack of character discernment and open-mindedness. One flaw is innocuous; the other is absolutely...
...Thailand's economy aside, the PAD's fundamental flaw is that it wants to blow things up without having articulated how it will put things back together again. Opposition leaders promise to bring a so-called "new politics" to Thailand. But what that means isn't clear, apart from trying to circumvent the problem of rampant vote-buying by replacing the one-person-one-vote system with a largely appointed parliament. Doing so would ensure that the electorate's pesky habit of returning pro-Thaksin elements to office would cease. But Thailand's reputation as a stable, democratic oasis...
...higher drinking laws encourage more or less binge drinking and drunk driving are, unfortunately, inconclusive. The debate over whether raising the national drinking age in 1984 caused a decrease in drunk-driving deaths is especially contested. A recent paper by Harvard economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron found a significant flaw in traffic fatality statistics that have often been used by opponents of underage drinking to demonstrate such a link, but the answer is still ultimately ambiguous. Given the uncertainty on whether the effects of the current drinking age are positive or negative, we must give the presumption to those...
...crisis may be exposing another, more insidious, flaw. As the industry has grown, it has become harder to tell good investment managers from lucky ones - and lucky ones from outright frauds. In a recent paper, Dean Foster, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and H. Peyton Young, a senior fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution, argued that the lack of industry regulation makes bad managers nearly impossible to detect. By making bets that have a relatively low probability of failing - say, 10% - an unskilled manager has a 90% chance of making good...
...performance is, at once, comfortably familiar and perceptibly lethargic. Meanwhile, Scott is given very little material to work with, and it shows. His Wheeler is extremely one-note, and while the actor does an adequate job, his character’s lack of development is a serious flaw. The script went through several revisions, with the help of four different writers, including Rudd and director David Wain. Nonetheless, the plot is still rather predictable. In parallel fashion, both men bond with their young charges, disappoint them, and ultimately emerge as more mature and selfless individuals. Still, the film works best...