Word: imperfection
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This morally ambiguous world populated by the imperfect is resonant and real—and it is vintage Connelly. Bitter detectives, sympathetic thieves, and model citizens-cum-pedophiles pervade the former journalist’s other books, almost all of which have been bestsellers...
...short list” from which Summers will make his ultimate selection.Were this the only accommodation made by Summers since members of the Faculty were last inflamed, perhaps yesterday’s performance would have been justified. But any fair observer would grant that, if still imperfect, Summers has at least taken positive steps towards accommodating the Faculty’s complaints. He has removed himself from any direct role in the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR)—perhaps in retrospect, mistakenly, given the Faculty’s disappointing failure to take leadership in this seminal initiative...
That scheme had come to seem impossibly harsh. Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit publication America who has performed many baptisms: "My idea of God is not a God who would condemn a baby to an imperfect life for eternity." Many priests have downplayed limbo out of similar concerns, and Martin lauds the Vatican panel for "bringing theological development in line with pastoral application...
...Jones agreed and pointedly rejected intelligent design as a legitimate scientific theory. ?To be sure, Darwin?s theory of evolution is imperfect,? he wrote. ?However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions...
...with a team of mostly Mozambican scientists and backed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, Alonso has been studying malaria on the ground and, for the past four years, testing an extraordinarily promising vaccine against the disease. So far, it's only partly effective, but even in this imperfect form, experts say, it could save millions of lives. "We're talking about the first solid demonstration of a malaria vaccine," says Alonso. "This is a breakthrough...