Word: imperfect
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Measures of intelligence are inevitably imperfect and contingent on concepts of what "intelligence" consists in. Last week's mishap serves as another reminder of the flexibility of the human mind in evading narrow constructions which would define its capacities. It also challenges those who would evaluate intellect to question, and perhaps to broaden, their criteria...
...hear all of three of the professors speak before study card day, since only one of them was lecturing the first full week of class. I ended up looking in old CUE guides to see the ratings for the other two for other courses they have taught. A somewhat imperfect way to choose classes...
Social science, however, is an imperfect discipline. Referring to programs for young children, Isabel Sawhill, a scholar at the Urban Institute and former official in the Clinton Administration, has written, "The evidence is always mixed. We simply do not know whether they work. In these cases, one must weigh the risk of doing something and having it not work against the risk of doing nothing and missing an opportunity to improve lives. It can be just as costly to not fund a potentially successful program as it is to fund a potentially unsuccessful...
...however, was never part of a sitcom, even if his life had helped inspire one. The victim was the real son of the real Bill Cosby, whose real family was in true sorrow and mourning. And while art may hold up a mirror to life, it offers only an imperfect reflection. The story of Bill and Ennis Cosby, for the most part invisible to the public, was of a richer texture, more complicated and problematic, with real joy, with real pain, with private loss, with humble victories...
...from Federico Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita. Now the lights faded, the water from the Neptune statue stopped, a lone flutist played the theme from 8 1/2 as two black drapes were stretched over the fountain. It was a last token of love to a man who was imperfect and irresistible...