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...stare decisis”—the Latin term for letting existing precedents stand. We realize the good intentions of legislators, but please spare us. For a lawyer who routinely argues before the Supreme Court, questions of amateurs are easily deflectable. Such an imperfect method shall yield nothing the nominee chooses not to reveal. An educated proposal to fix the confirmation system is beyond the scope of this editorial however...
After watching hours of casting tapes for the pilot last year, House executive producer Bryan Singer refused to see any more British actors due to their imperfect American accents. "Luckily Bryan had no idea who Hugh was," says the show's creator David Shore, who played Laurie's audition tape, sent from a sandy, Namibian film shoot, for Singer. "Bryan said, 'That's what we want, a terrific American actor.'" Laurie could hardly be more British, having attended the University of Cambridge alongside cinema heavyweight Emma Thompson and preferring for the time being to keep his wife and three school...
Since nothing this catastrophic ever happened in any of the prior shuttle flights, NASA grew increasingly--and justifiably--confident that the lightweight and durable shielding was the best of an admittedly imperfect set of options. Now there is reason to doubt. "Obviously, the loss of tiles has to be looked at and put to bed," says George Gleghorn, a former chief engineer for TRW's space group and, for six years, a member of a NASA safety-advisory panel...
...fact that Lincoln's mouth is turned ever so slightly into a smile. The smile doesn't negate the sorrow. But it alters tragedy into grace. It's as if this rough-faced, aging man has cast his gaze toward eternity and yet still cherishes his memories--of an imperfect world and its fleeting, sometimes terrible beauty. On trying days, the portrait, a reproduction of which hangs in my office, soothes me; it always asks me questions...
Hoffer, an adviser on plagiarism to the American Historical Association, is the author of “Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Frauds,” an examination of major cases of historical misconduct...