Word: misguidedness
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The response of other politicians to this issue, however, has been amazingly misguided. Consider, for example, President Bushs reaction last spring when the storm clouds were beginning to collect around DeLay. Even after the majority leader was formally admonished by the House Ethics Committee and details about his other serious...
David Swensen is easily the best money manager in higher education. He may be the best, period. In 20 years of running Yale University's endowment, which has $15 billion, he has delivered average annual returns of 16.1%--blowing away the typical college endowment's return of 11.6%. Swensen, 51...
Relying on incumbents to publicize the races in the Houses also seems somewhat misguided. Common sense dictates that incumbents who want to return to the UC are unlikely to work hard to inspire hordes of charismatic over-achievers to run against them; and incumbents who do not wish to return...
Claims made early on that no one could have predicted this calamity have been debunked; it was simply that no one had taken the initiative to spearhead the necessary changes. Michael D. Brown, the embattled former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director, is clearly one such specific individual whose guilt was...
Mathematical arguments against evolution are equally misguided, says Martin Nowak, a Harvard professor of mathematics and evolutionary biology. "You cannot calculate the probability that an eye came about," he says. "We don't have the information to make this calculation." Nowak, who describes himself as a person of faith, sees...