Word: foolproof
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Bruised, battered and frustrated, the losing team inevitably searches for someone to blame in the face of an unexpected defeat. To place the onus on one's own shortcomings is to lose face; to credit the other team for a better performance is to admit inferiority. The most foolproof tact is to, instead, blame the referee--for a bad call on a particularly key play, for consistently favoring the other team or for simply being, as school kids are apt to whine in gym class, "not fair...
Like most generalizations, this one is not foolproof. It's a chicken-and-egg problem: who's to say whether the university fits the mythology, or the mythology fits the university? And sure, there are levels on which this is just a story, surrounded by self-perpetuating hype...
...basement of Cabot Library is without question the social hub of Harvard. In search of new friends, I ventured to Cabot's musty subterranean quarters to find some. Making friends with people who are studying may seem like a tough task--luckily I had a plan that was foolproof in its simplicity...
...current state of the Arizona primary should convince politicians once and for all that there is no easy foolproof way to cheat the system. Last year, Arizona's Republican-controlled state legislature voted to switch the primary date to Feb. 22, a move that effectively took the steam out of Democratic debate thanks to a tenant of the Democratic National Party's election guidelines that does not allow state primaries (with the exception of New Hampshire) before March...
Clearly there is no foolproof way to prevent a similar incident on Harvard's campus. But University and local officials say campus buildings stand out as among the best-protected college structures in the country, both because of the advanced fire prevention technology already in place, and because of the firefighters who protect them...