Word: imperfectibility
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...unless they can prove (using police crime reports) that the locale presents a real and present danger to Domino's drivers. The compromise, which simultaneously allows Domino's to settle without admitting any wrongdoing and keeps the DOJ's civil rights agenda on track, may be seen as an imperfect solution to a messy problem. "The Justice Department did the best it could under the circumstances, " says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The DOJ wanted to acknowledge that race cannot inform a delivery schedule, and concurrently signal that it understands safety concerns...
Words from both sides suggest two areas of underlying agreement among the discord: achievement tests are worthwhile, but MCAS is an imperfect instrument...
When Al Gore floated a bold proposal last week to reform campaign financing--calling for an end to "soft money" contributions and the creation of a $7.1 billion endowment--he admitted that he is an "imperfect messenger for this cause." In his new modesty offensive, Gore was alluding to such well-known blemishes on his record as the 1996 fund raiser he held at a Buddhist temple. But Gore's imperfections may also extend to the more traditional realm of political patronage, particularly through his influence with a powerful institution back home: the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...Pope's generalized apology was inherently imperfect. Does such a cosmic "sorry" mean anything? What's done is done--the ashes of heretics burned centuries ago are cold indeed. The silence surrounding Auschwitz has a terrible integrity that need not be intruded upon by anyone's moral pettifogging about why the church did not speak...
Underlying this silly "two-in-one-flesh" argument, however, is a more troubling notion--the idea that the feelings of same-sex couples are somehow inferior to those experienced by heterosexual couples, mere imperfect replicas of "real" love. Yet, the emotional intimacy between two men or two women can be just as real, and felt just as strongly, as that between a man and a woman. It's sad that people like Moschella won't acknowledge that...