Word: imperfections
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...solution to imperfect data is more information rather than less," McGrath Lewis said...
...McCain himself often says, money is like water: it finds the cracks in the wall. But the reformers argue that any change, even imperfect change, is good: it allows some oxygen into the room, and it wins some time before the influence peddlers master the new rules. In the meantime, the reformers will have shown that the system is capable of rehabilitating itself, even if it takes an entire generation...
...assertion of a Taliban leader that "all we are crushing are stones" is amazing. Isn't the holy city of Mecca made of stone too? How would millions of Muslim hajj pilgrims feel if a Buddhist fanatic took revenge by blowing up Mecca's "stone"? As an imperfect Buddhist bound by vows and aspirations, I can only sit calmly through my frustrations and exercise reluctant tolerance. But I do wonder if I haven't given in to a bully yet again in the name of compassion. D.J. KHYENTSE RINPOCHE, LEADER United Non-Sectarian Buddhist Front Paro, Bhutan...
...McCain himself often says, money is like water: It finds the cracks in the wall. But the reformers argue that any change, even imperfect change, is good: It allows some oxygen into the room, and it wins some time before the influence peddlers master the new rules. In the meantime, the reformers will have shown that the system is capable of rehabilitating itself, even if it takes an entire generation...
Response: the only antidote to the textual impossibility of dialogue. Fame: from the Greek phonei, to speak; famous: to be spoken about. Fame, which takes the written word from its chaste page and breathes life into it. The dream of text: to become speech, imperfect and ink-stained images of itself...