Word: imperfectibility
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...what can we do to take back our inboxes? On the technical side of things, Harvard has given us access to some of the best (though still imperfect) spam filtering tools—you can enable the ominously named SpamAssassin for your inbox by typing blockmail at the fas% prompt instead of pine (or, for those of you with no idea what I’m talking about, by going to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/myaccount/). These tools learn from the spam they receive, so they’re always improving as they play a never-ending tit-for-tat with...
...public pays the price—literally, in the form of escalating health insurance costs. Every year, health insurance costs ratchet up about 15 percent, and over 41 million Americans currently have no coverage at all. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has shown how imperfect information in private health insurance markets forces up premiums, and how mandatory public health insurance programs can overcome this market failure. But any Democrat who dares to propose such a plan would be heckled off the national stage as an “old school liberal...
Christine M. Murray ’04, coordinator of the New York service trip, acknowledges that the application process is imperfect. Even so, she contends that the brief interview serves as a useful, albeit incomplete, indicator. “It does say something about how committed, enthusiastic and flexible [an applicant] is,” she says. “I hope that the limited number of spots motivates others to propose and lead ASB trips of their...
Such micromanagement of noise may never be entirely possible, but it may be the best of an imperfect array of options. The alternative--walling ourselves off behind a thickening barricade of earplugs, triple-glazed windows and white-noise machines--may keep down the noise, but it will also deafen us to much of the world, not just the parts we don't want to hear...
What exactly does this do for the Top Girls? Before these exercises, the cast was a screwball swarm of hysterical giggles and rowdy line readings. But now they are firmly seated around a dinner table, their focus immersed in the performances and the improvement of their as yet imperfect accents. For the members involved in this production, there is a time for inanity and a time for gravity, and amidst the flurry of vaguely cultish behaviors, they find that clear transition...