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...Impressive as these busts are, China's anticorruption strategy may have a flaw. Instead of encouraging independent law-enforcement agencies and the media to expose officials who take bribes, Communist Party leaders increasingly emphasize internal Party discipline as the crucial weapon in fighting corruption. The day before the Central Committee meeting, President Hu Jintao, in a major speech, called for deepening the "anticorruption struggle." In his speech, Hu ruled out Western-style democracy for China. But without some outside check on behavior, it is not clear how corrupt officials can be brought into line. "Letting people choose their leaders would...
...Child Left Behind is riddled with problems, but its biggest flaw is that it distracts policymakers from solutions that work. Educators know which programs work, and they know that declaring a school “failing” and then pulling the rug out from under it isn’t going to improve public education. Federal education policy must focus less on finding out which schools failed to educate some small subgroup of students and more on giving teachers the resources they need to succeed...
...Perhaps uMusic's biggest flaw is its lack of expansion options: there is no online interface for downloading songs, and you can't get a bigger hard drive. So unless you start deleting, once the drive is full, you're stuck playing the same old songs...
...impossible to see a list of songs you have marked as favorites or quickly find a specific song you want to hear. Anyone who has created playlists on a computer will be disappointed to see that uMusic lets you make only one fixed playlist. Perhaps uMusic's biggest flaw is its lack of expansion options: there is no online interface for downloading songs, and you can't get a bigger hard drive. So unless you start deleting, once the drive is full, you're stuck playing the same old songs...
Renan thought that Litinsky’s self-confidence would be his tragic flaw and ultimately lead to his dismissal. “He won’t win because he’s too cocky,” Renan said...