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...Harvard’s most pressing flaw was its inability to slow down a faster opponent. BU feasted on the Crimson defense, thriving on back-cuts to create open layups and draw-and-kick schemes to set up open jumpers or three-pointers...
...obesity. Their intentions are sound; a full-fledged attack on unhealthy cafeteria food, inactive children and parents alike and under-funded recreational facilities and educational programs is exactly what is in order. However, their means have been less steady than their (hopeful) ends. By using CDC’s flawed estimate as justification in comparing obesity to smoking, the negative mind-set surrounding obesity has been further instilled in the mass culture. Chubbiness is still implicitly perceived as an external sign of an internal flaw (a lack of self-control) and indicative of further character weaknesses; obese people are perceived...
...Kinsey also takes sex into a broader sociological context by dramatizing the fatal flaw of Kinsey’s research and personal sex life. Kinsey was the first person to ever study sex objectively, an inherently flawed occupation because “sex [is] a factory of emotion,” says Condon. This was an “inconvenient thought for [Kinsey] because he was trying to separate sex and study it completely from a scientific perspective...
...Iraq war further revealed how little Bush learned from September 11. The president now blames his flawed rationale for the war on bad intelligence, but the “WMD-that-weren’t” fiasco was the second major intelligence failure on his watch. The crucial lesson of 9/11 was that U.S. intelligence needed to be overhauled immediately, before another intelligence flaw imperiled American lives. Bush failed that leadership test with catastrophic results...
...more than $100 million in negative advertising against Kerry, and almost all of it has been within the bounds of standard political practice. Some has been quite brilliant: the "flip-flop" assault inflated Kerry's most annoying trait--his nuance-addled hedging of political bets--into a defining character flaw. That was fair, as was the dreadful broadside of ads taking isolated Kerry votes--98 times, allegedly, for higher taxes--and telescoping them into an ideological pattern. Negative advertising is like humor. Selective exaggeration is standard, but the exaggeration must have a basis in reality. Kerry is more likely than...