Word: imperfection
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...draw comparisons to what is happening in real life. There are themes that seem to allude to Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the candidate President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims to have defeated: the unwanted quest and the risking of life in pursuit of an unanticipated destiny. Could he be Boromir, the imperfect warrior who is heroic at the end, dying to defend humanity? Didn't Mousavi talk about being ready for martyrdom? (See pictures of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman whose death has rallied the opposition...
...with young people's immediate concerns. I felt that boycotting elections made a prize of abstract ideals over daily realities. I had experienced Iran in both the repressive late 1990s and the relatively more open years of reformist President Mohammed Khatami, and not choosing a more open government - however imperfect the process of choice - seemed inconceivable...
...destroyed our nation, I'm glad that someone with a sense of humor is leading the lunatic fringe. Joseph McCarthy didn't make fun of his weight, and Father Coughlin never wondered what the deal was with anything. Making fun of yourself implies that you know your message is imperfect. So I hope Beck, who does have the tunnel logic of an extremist, keeps going on these tours. Especially since writing material for him is so easy...
...world. Despite the unprecedented collapse of several Wall Street giants that relied on quantitative forecasting, they say that the fundamentals of quantitative techniques remain intact.But at the same time, there is a new note of humility—an explicit recognition that the world is complex, formulas are imperfect, and humans are fallible.THE GREAT UNKNOWNWhile debates continue to rage over the length, severity, or causes of the financial crisis, economists have agreed on one of its effects: a renewed caution about the predictive powers of mathematics.Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton says that finance, unlike other subfields of economics...
...leave Harvard, I leave with the love of a child for his imperfect parent, with the knowledge that the parent’s virtues and imperfections are the foundations of my own. I love Harvard, will always love Harvard, and will fight—from near or far-- to make it a better place. And I thank you--my teachers, students, colleagues, and staff--for being the trellis of my growth and the flowering vines on my trellis...