Word: imperfection
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...usual sense. The truest of true believers is more like it, ever faithful to the idea that where they worked was a place that served the wider world in some important way. But sometimes it's the keepers of the flame who feel most compelled to set their imperfect temple to the torch. When headquarters didn't live up to its mission, they took it to heart. At Enron the company handed out note pads with inspiring quotes. One was from Martin Luther King Jr.: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Watkins...
...notoriety. "He speaks directly to the people," glows BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley. "He has become a folk hero." Now the Dec. 12 ballot in Gujarat pits Modi against Shankersinh Vaghela, the candidate of the avowedly secular Congress Party. But the true choice is between two visions of India: imperfect but inclusive harmony, or strident, angry segregation. Both the BJP and Congress say their strategies for the 2004 general elections will be based on what some 50 million Gujaratis decide. For the BJP, it is a test of whether hate politics work and, as hard-liners see it, whether...
...FUTURE IMPERFECT...
...When citizens join together to be heard, they come up with imperfect statements,” Hanson said...
Blocking groups are imperfect means of distributing first-years to Houses, but they are preferable to arbitrarily consigning denizens of, say, Stoughton Hall to the Quad. The specter of forming blocking groups often goads reclusive first-years into engaging in more socializing than they might otherwise do during their first months at the College. Such a spur can be only a good thing for the social health of the campus. Conversely, much of the community of the Yard would be lost by moving to a plan like Yale’s. Because Harvard first-years have no House affiliation, only...