Word: imperfect
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...Still, cynics who suggested that all that talk may have been just so much hot air miss the point, said Timothy Wirth, a former U.S. Senator and head of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund. "Where else does the world network?" he asked. "In a world of imperfect information it's good to get together and thrash these things through...
...rules in order to eliminate regimes it deems potentially threatening to its own global interests is alarming not only to traditional U.S. allies abroad, but also to many luminaries of the Republican foreign policy establishment reared on doctrines of containment, deterrence and maintaining the stability of an imperfect world. While the new hawks are prepared to tolerate a degree of instability - in the Middle East, for example, as a result of an attack on Iraq - in order to eliminate what they identify as the primary danger, many of the old "realists" fear such instability could be even more dangerous. Other...
...break came in 1932, when he was assigned to photograph Trotsky as he spoke in a Copenhagen stadium on the meaning of the Russian Revolution. His pictures were the most dramatic of the day, writes Kershaw. Taken within a meter of so of Trotsky, they were intense, intimate and imperfect - the trademarks of the man who would become famous as Capa, or "shark" in Hungarian. As Nazi power grew in Germany, Friedmann moved to Paris, the only city he would ever consider home. In France, he documented the social and industrial strife of the mid-1930s, struggled to earn...
...divorced remarried Catholics are barred from the sacraments. But annulments are plentiful--if you can prove that your marriage was from the outset so dysfunctional it wasn't a marriage at all. So complete failures can be rescued, but human messes are unforgivable, and fresh starts for the imperfect ruled out of bounds. Similarly, homosexuals are informed that they are born that way, but no sexual intimacy is permissible, because it cannot lead to procreation. But the infertile are married every day; postmenopausal spouses are allowed active sex lives. Only lay Catholic homosexuals are given no option for sexual intimacy...
Most of the book, however, is not of this high caliber. Morin’s failure is most pronounced in the scenes in which Lois works on an abstract painting of a woman in white, an imperfect black square named Max and a garden. The triangular symbolism in her painting works too hard to imitate her life. Similarly, a subplot involving Maximilian, the Austrian Emperor of Mexico, and his white-clad queen is completely extraneous. The little history lesson could hardly be more boring or less relevant...