Word: imperfection
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...Today's Serb leaders, however, aren't the only politicians who are a little uncomfortable with the proceedings unfolding in The Hague. A number of Western leaders had to deal with the strongman over the past decade, reaching deals and accommodations in efforts to stabilize the increasingly imperfect world of the simmering Balkans. Richard Holbrooke, Lords Carrington and Owen and other senior Western officials spent hours behind closed doors on Milosevic's sofa without even the presence of translators (the strongman had been a banker before he became president, and prides himself on his command of English). His performance...
...never shake the older man who created her, who pulled her from the loneliness of Taiwan and made her a star. It's all related to Hong Kong's peculiar film business and the insecurities it has created within her. Locals flock to her films but frequently trash her imperfect grasp of Cantonese. More experimental markets suit her, and she's hugely popular in Japan and South Korea. But the Hong Kong press labels her as arrogant, greedy, cruel and uncooperative, precisely because she doesn't play by the same rules as everyone else. It has been painful...
Mansfield may have been wrong about the causes of grade inflation, but he is not mistaken about its effects. Grades will always be an imperfect means of evaluating individuals, but Harvard’s system prevents grades from serving any productive purpose...
...What Chen lacks is emotional intelligence," says Hu, "he doesn't have that. How can you be a great leader without that kind of emotional center?" Chen says he is working on that, studying up on being emotionally intelligent just as he once crammed for trigonometry exams. "There are imperfections in my life. It's like a missing corner. The missing corner makes the picture imperfect, but it also has the infinite potential for what...
...full-of-dishes part of family life where there are no "rules" and where couples decide, sometimes daily, to "stick it out." Krasnow believes, and I agree, that a conscious commitment to marriage can help couples transcend the grind of everyday life and create a marriage that is happily imperfect. Especially poignant are her accounts of people who have fled marriages to be with that elusive soul mate of their middle-aged fantasy. Not surprisingly, the soul mates turn into ordinary spouses sooner or later...