Word: imperfectibility
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...they are not required to seek him out. That leaves diplomacy as the only viable venue for removing him. Holbrooke's other mission is to make sure that the upcoming elections in Bosnia are held in mid-September, despite obvious flaws. "I think the elections are certain to be imperfect and it's essential they go on," Holbrooke said last month. "If the elections are not held while NATO are on the ground, they probably never will be held." Holbrooke, who left his position as assistant Secretary of State in February for a lucrative career on Wall Street, is probably...
...Monday-morning quarterbacking as to their roles in Southeast Asia. The real, original tragedy labeled Bosnia is the bumbling dismemberment of formerly confederated Yugoslavia. A worldly wise Swiss friend of mine, who has lived in both the Balkans and the Middle East, made an interesting comparison: In Lebanon an imperfect but very livable and prosperous Swiss-type status quo prevailed for years, providing Christians, Muslims, Druzes and others breathing space and give-and-take ethnoreligious integrity. But recently that harmony has ceased to exist. Yugoslavia too had gone a long way toward evolving into the Switzerland of the Balkans, until...
...impression of having seen my friends go through it is that sometimes it's an imperfect process," Lee says...
...invention of an authority figure who was imperfect though invariably wise and right was a novel idea, Travers' gift to the modern children's book, just as the idea that a little boy could go off and have unsupervised adventures with his stuffed animals, however fantastical, was Milne's. Both writers were emerging from a Victorian tradition that saw children's literature as a didactic form whose function--if it wasn't to romanticize childhood--was to instill a respect for adult values and behavior...
...unfortunately difficult to solve) problems is that the orchestra is simply too loud. Although they suffer from intonation problems, the players are solid and and the sound is balanced within the ensemble; however, the group overpowers the vocalists in almost every musical number. Sadly, in a room as acoustically imperfect as the Leverett Old Library it is close to impossible for even a small pit to avoid drowning out unamplified singers...