Word: misguidedness
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That means stars -- and star salaries. Though high-priced talent raids have been attacked as a misguided extravagance at a time when network news budgets are being slashed, these new stars, for better or worse, usually justify their pay. Their presence can mean precious ratings points, and sometimes even the...
In a TV marketplace that seems to be operating with fewer and fewer restraints, it is ironic that advertisers have become the new guardians of quality. The trouble is: Whose definition of quality? Campaigns against "tasteless" shows usually come from the most conservative elements of American society. One pressure group...
Even to label genes as defective can be dangerous. In the 19th century new discoveries about heredity and evolution gave rise to the eugenics movement -- a misguided pseudo science whose followers thought that undesirable traits should be systematically purged from the human gene pool. Believers ranged from the American eugenicists...
Jewett hopes to present the class of 1993 with a fait accompli: 50 percent randomization. Not only does the staff position endorse this misguided proposal, but it condones the dean's decision to ignore the members of the Harvard community directly affected by the plan.
Now to the other half of the problem. Many law faculty members, and here the critical legal studies people are clearly the worst offenders, not only do not appreciate or understand what it means to prove something, but they believe it is wrongheaded to try to do so. For the...