Word: myopic
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Within Harvard this year, there was disheartening evidence that dreams are dying hard. Students elected Beth A. Stewart '00 president of the student body on a myopic platform of "pragmatic" student issues such as wiring the dorms for cable television and winning frozen yogurt for first-years. In that election, students rejected the notion that their representatives ought to engage bigger and simply more important issues: Faculty diversity, the tenure process, the close-mouthed Administrative Board, the morality of University investments. Long-term progress on these big issues takes a willingness to think...
...battered and bewildered Democrats responded to the reality of a Republican congress not with an alternative to triumphant conservatism, but with a myopic anti-Gingrichism that evolved into desperate Clinton/Gore boosterism. Despite the fact that many blamed Clinton for his party's big losses in '94, Democrats paradoxically viewed Clinton as their only hope for survival. By the time of the '96 campaign, "Four more years!" became more important than taking back the Hill...
...Teach-Ins were valuable in two respects. They promoted a sense of empowerment that extends beyond any individual issue, and encouraged people to take control of all aspects of their lives. They also addressed a wide set of issues, and in doing so helped to cast off the myopic haze which too often surrounds Harvard students. For one week, we were challenged to consider the plight not only of comfortable Ivy Leaguers, but also of oppressed students in Kosovo, Zapatistas in Chiapas, or low-skill workers...
...seems to me that the three biggest impediments to justice are myopic ethics, poor reasoning and fear of open intellectual combat.... To the extent that events such as this one combats [these problems], I am grateful," he said...
Enter Nichols and Kaczynski. Nichols was acquitted last week of both first- and second-degree murder and convicted of eight counts of the same charge ultimately leveled against au pair Louise Woodward: involuntary manslaughter. Woodward was sentenced to time already served; Nichols may face the death penalty. Why? Because myopic America wants revenge at any cost for Oklahoma's dead. Likewise, the country wants to see the pernicious Unabomber die so badly that Janet Reno rejected an insanity plea last week in order to preserve the possibility of imposing the death penalty...