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...developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ("It is time that [his] pedestal were dismounted") and Bertrand Russell ("He made a fool of himself"). He has spoken ill of children ("the most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice. Like a Socratic traveling salesman, he has moved...
...been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary ... He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as ... Bertrand Russell ('he made a fool of himself'). He has spoken ill of children ('the most imperfect of all human beings') and dogs ('they are only brutes'). He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice ... (H)e has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks of thought in ... college students...
...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...