Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Mahan ally Matthew J. Glazer ’06, chair of the Council’s Student Affairs Committee, recognizes that Mahan’s modus operandi this semester has been imperfect, but says Mahan has recognized the importance of making council members feel included in crucial decision-making...
...Italian food and close mentorship. Because I basically got neither at Harvard, I thought this was a major fault of the whole endeavor. My vision of what college was supposed to be was totally shaped by my impressions of my dad and his students. Anything different from that was imperfect. That was before my dad came to college with me, though...
...President has, in any case, cast his lot dramatically and, it appears, irrevocably. Rather than continue an imperfect but effective policy--begun by his father and continued by Bill Clinton--of containing Iraqis with sanctions, a no-fly zone and the occasional clocker to the head, Bush simply decided that containment wasn't working anymore. The Administration spent millions to prop up a dubious group of Iraqi exiles led by Ahmad Chalabi--former Central Command boss Anthony Zinni has called them "the Gucci guerrillas from London"--who helped generate the secret "intelligence" needed to create a rationale for pre-emptive...
...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...