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Riley: Two other examples: with Richard Nixon, I mean, it's impossible to think about Watergate without thinking about Nixon's temperament, his sort of dark sense of enemies everywhere. And Bill Clinton--[his] failure was a deeply personal failure with Monica Lewinsky, and it's a failure of discipline. I mean, this is a man who knew that ... for years there were people out to get him, and he, even in that environment, didn't have the personal discipline necessary to avoid creating a problem that ... for all of history will...
...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 his head if he didn't remain loyal to his wife...
...Favorite dish? Beef with Chinese bitter melon and black bean sauce. Call me precocious, but the real term for me is “nontaster.”As a nontaster, I belong to about 25% of the population who have muted oral sensory experiences. Among other things, it means that I cannot taste a chemical called propylthiouracil (PROP), a compound similar to those found in plants of the mustard family. Sensitivity to PROP is a genetically determined trait. For nontasters like me, a slip of paper soaked in PROP tastes like, well, soggy paper, and for about half...
...last year, when required percentage increases leapt up to 11 percent a year. The California state superintendent admitted he hoped that Congress would soften the federal law when it came up for reauthorization in 2007. But the law wasn’t softened, and the huge increases now required mean that many schools which have had solid records of improving test scores over the past six years have been put on probation and are threatened with losing funding if they continue to fall short of these unreasonable standards. Worse, the law affects each state differently and punishes those with rigorous...
...facts are clear enough: the Crimson will play Lehigh tomorrow at 12:30 in Harvard Stadium. But that doesn’t mean Harvard (3-1, 1-1 Ivy) knows exactly who it will be facing when it takes the field for its final non-conference contest. “Which team shows up will be interesting,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “They’re a little bit of an enigma, but from what we see and what we experienced last year, they’ve got plenty of athletes...