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Gage: We're getting a little mixed up with character and temperament. They're really hard to distinguish, but I think there is a way in which what Clinton seemed to lack was ... a personal filter or the ability to filter his own desires...
Riley: [Clinton] knew this was a wrong thing to do. All right, that's a character failure. But there is also a temperamental failure, which is a lack of discipline and a lack of what for a better term would be an inability to learn from past experience, an inability to adapt to a hostile environment. I mean, this is somebody who's extremely, extremely bright and yet in this particular instance could not see that all of the previous failures or all of the previous difficulties that he had had with this issue would come crashing down around...
...math by 2014. While the ambition of lawmakers was admirable, the goal of reaching universal proficiency in less than a generation is patently absurd—especially when many states began with less than 15 percent proficiency rates. Rather than penalize schools now for the legislation’s lack of foresight, Congress should have revised expectations downward when the act came up for renewal in 2007. The reason that this year has seen so many schools fail to meet federal standards is that state requirements were very poorly structured under NCLB. About half of the states had anticipated...
...dollhouses immediately bring to mind images of deserted Disneylands, Lilliputian worlds, and models for gated suburban housing communities. While the art is beautiful, it fails to strike the viewer in a more significant way, resulting in a pointed absence of emotion that stems from the work’s lack of originality. Her reasons for piecing together this exhibit could be simple. Discovering and purchasing each dollhouse, whether on eBay or in person, was clearly a thrill, and she has said that she enjoyed unpacking the houses and observing their meticulous detail. The rest of the work featured...
...inmate to confine an inmate to death row compared to the costs of a maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole most often serve their sentences. Such arguments raise meaningful objections to the practice of state-inflicted death. The possibility of flawed outcomes, the lack of evidence for deterrence, and the burdensome cost of death row all speak to the amoral nature of the punishment. In the case of Troy Davis, the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear this case is an understandable one, grounded in the belief that Davis received...