Word: imperfectibility
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back to notice the little things: the Sargent murals in Widener, the way the afternoon light slants across the whiteness of the Memorial Church steeple, the words on Dexter Gate. These quiet moments, outside of the regular busyness of our lives, make Harvard quite a different place from the imperfect institution we talk idealistically and passionately about. And although I don’t think academic robes will be required for dinner anytime soon, I have never appreciated the beauty of the campus at dusk on a Sunday afternoon in September as much...
...Michigan College of Pharmacy. "Hospitals do know that errors are happening." Remedies range from introducing new computers to monitor and control prescription medication output to adding better-qualified pharmacy staff. The computers will help cut back on mistakes considerably, Kirking says, but the hospitals are still tied to imperfect technology - and human error - so existing problems can't be solved overnight. Additional staff will help ward off the fatigue-related errors sometimes found in hospitals with overworked and understaffed nursing departments - nurses, after all, are often the ones stuck processing prescriptions...
...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...