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...editor of The Oxford Student, could decide to write a comparison of the different undergraduate experiences at Oxford and Harvard. Only one flaw in the plan: I have never been to Harvard, and so anything which I write can only be based on prejudice and disinformation, backed up with a video night spent with Good Will Hunting...
...astonished to receive an e-mail from Stealth Signal, which had tracked the laptop to my home address and phone, even though my number is blocked. The company says it has a 63% recovery rate, a figure that climbs to 95% if the laptop broadcasts a signal. One flaw: reformatting the hard drive can also erase the tracking software...
Lott's comments, by contrast, were certainly not the truth. But they may have revealed a truth. The suspicion is that they bubbled up from his id and escaped through his lips when his guard was down, thereby exposing an important and deeply distressing moral flaw in Lott himself. This process is too serious to label a gaffe. So let's call it a supergaffe. A supergaffe is when a politician says what he really thinks...
...break is so incentivizing that it will pay for itself, or that a bigger government deficit doesn't matter, ask yourself: Hey, in that case, why not lower tax rates to zero? Why torture ourselves with taxes at all? If you sense that there may be a flaw in that idea, ask yourself why a smaller version of the same idea isn't also flawed. If you don't sense a flaw, words are wasted...
...realized that some people can teach, some people can research and some people can do both,” Maats says. “The major flaw in the tenure process is that it doesn’t factor in teaching ability as a criterion...