Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli negotiator. "We shall stay as long as is necessary." The army preferred to complete its redeployment within a few days, fearing a slow drawdown of troops might expose the departing soldiers to danger if the P.L.O. failed to maintain order. Such concerns were magnified by the P.L.O.'s imperfect management. A day after the Cairo ceremony, the first 1,500 of 9,000 Palestinian police were to arrive from P.L.O. bases around the Arab world. But only 19 police commanders turned up; the others were delayed by "technical hitches...
...publicity and because she seems linked to people hoping for political gain. Moreover, her account is ultimately uncheckable: only two people were in the room. But even if true, some editors question its relevance. It took place before Clinton was President, and one essential element -- that he was an imperfect husband -- is not exactly news. There has been a tacit standard that his pre-presidential peccadillos were absolved when he and his wife discussed them on 60 Minutes during the campaign...
...know this imperfect plan needs some corrections and I hope this spurs some thought on what liberal education is. But, students would take this track fully informed that this is only an introduction and by no means comprehensive. Students would knowingly give up some of their social lives and their fingers might numb from writing up to 50 pages per semester (with rewrites, of course). These six courses would exempt students from Lit and Arts, Moral Reasoning and perhaps two electives or two non-science cores...
...solution is imperfect. Some scholars object outright to any government engineering of racial advantage. Other critics note that whites in the newly created districts become a new voiceless minority. A third group grimaces at the gerrymanders spawned when districters create land bridges between geographically dispersed minority members. Nonetheless, the districts were generally accepted as a necessary evil. Their critics from the right risked portrayal as troglodytes. And when Lani Guinier, Clinton's ill-fated candidate for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, entered stage left, having penned articles suggesting some alternatives, the backpedaling President called them "antidemocratic" and "difficult...
...followed by sentences that begin with But. In the end, the buts win: "American idealism remains as essential as ever, perhaps even more so. But in the new world order, its role will be to provide the faith to sustain America through all the ambiguities of choice in an imperfect world...