Word: idealizations
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...Donato said. “The difference in the game was what we gave up, not what we got, because we got a lot, we got enough to win a hockey game.”Two Big Red penalties late in the period gave the Crimson an ideal opportunity to break the tie, but the Harvard was unable to take advantage. The Crimson enjoyed 1:23 of 5-on-3 play, but an effective Cornell penalty kill, combined with some errant Harvard passes, ensured that the period would end in a deadlock.After the Big Red’s impressive defensive...
Edwards isn’t the first to discover a new way to guard against TB—two French scientists developed the so-called BCG vaccine to fight the disease in the early 1920s. But the present-day BCG method is far from ideal. It requires injecting needles into infants—a risky endeavor in areas where clean needles are hard to find, and where reusing old ones can spread HIV. Moreover, the BCG vaccine must be stored at cool temperatures, complicating its distribution to remote areas...
...been called the last small-r republican--the last defender of an old ideal of the American republic. Has the U.S. evolved into an empire...
...doctrine of realism, or its Prussian-accented cousin realpolitik, emphasizes a hard-nosed focus on clearly defined national interests, such as economic or security goals, pursued with a pragmatic calculation of commitments and resources. Idealism, on the other hand, emphasizes moral values and ideals, such as spreading democracy, and is apt to be more crusading and sentimental in its willingness to pay any price and bear any burden. Adherents of the second clich argue that these days there is little distinction between the two because spreading democracy is in our economic and security interest. Our difficulties in Iraq, however, show...
...Donato said. “The difference in the game was what we gave up, not what we got, because we got a lot, we got enough to win a hockey game.”Two Big Red penalties late in the period gave the Crimson an ideal opportunity to break the tie, but the Harvard was unable to take advantage. The Crimson enjoyed 1:23 of 5-on-3 play, but an effective Cornell penalty kill, combined with some errant Harvard passes, ensured that the period would end in a deadlock.After the Big Red’s impressive defensive...