Word: idealizations
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...team looking to find its stride after a difficult opening weekend, the ideal schedule would be a slate of easy contests to build up confidence. Unfortunately for Harvard men’s water polo, the squad doesn’t have that luxury.The Crimson (0-3) will travel to Denunzio Pool in Princeton, N.J. this weekend hoping to establish itself at the Princeton Invitational after three straight losses to open the season.But Harvard will have a tremendously talented field—including five teams in the Collegiate Water Polo Association preseason top 20—standing...
...Producers Animal Welfare Advisory Committee and as an adviser to McDonald’s on animal welfare issues, Armstrong would have undoubtedly taken the opposing view. Considering that he lends his name and prestige (and his MSU affiliation) to these methods and practices, he seemed to be the ideal advocate for those who support animal use. Sadly, Armstrong flatly refused to participate...
Wendell Potter may be the ideal whistle-blower. The former head of corporate communications for health-insurance giant Cigna, Potter turned against his old colleagues in June to testify before a congressional committee about what he viewed as the health-insurance industry's "duplicitous" behavior in the current health-reform debate. In his testimony, Potter outlined specific techniques insurers employ to "dump the sick" and protect stock price at all costs. His testimony was logical, specific and convincing, but that's only part of what makes Wendell Potter a perfect turncoat in the eyes of the pro-reform movement. (Watch...
...However, there is a bigger issue at stake here. To think of public speaking as something that can be practiced in an ideal section mischaracterizes it as a pure skill instead of an art form. There’s a big difference between an adequate orator and an inspiring one, and the difference does not lie in avoiding obvious faux pas, like not breaking into a terrible sweat or remembering the rules of grammar. Undergraduates could probably figure out the mechanics of public speaking without lessons. But when it comes to crafting a persuasive message and delivering...
...winds of market fundamentalism in a U.S.-led movement that is usually called globalization." He said that "unrestrained market fundamentalism and financial capitalism" are "devoid of morals or moderation," and criticized a "way of thinking based on the idea that American-style free-market economics represents a universal and ideal economic order." "The influence of the U.S. is declining," Hatoyama wrote, in a "new era of multipolarity." While saying that the "Japan-US security pact will continue to be the cornerstone of Japanese diplomatic policy" (of course!) he insisted that "the East Asian region.... must be recognized as Japan...