Word: paradox
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...good old days of government hypocrisy, an overzealous bureaucrat came up with a brilliant solution to an age old paradox: How could the United States government break its own laws without getting caught? The solution was to create chains of command tenuous enough so that if a pesky, over-intrepid journalist or human rights activist caught wind of the government’s dastardly deeds, it could disclaim knowledge or responsibility for the entire mess...
...remain pessimistic that the poor will benefit from the measures. "We have no reason to believe that the current bureaucratic system can deliver," says P. Chengala Reddy, of the Indian Farmers and Industry Alliance, a farmers' lobby, citing the wastage and corruption that have blighted previous initiatives. Chidambaram's paradox is this: to reach India's poor, he has to rely on a bureaucracy whose inefficiency helped perpetuate the problem of poverty in the first place. The Finance Minister is aware of the challenge. "We have provided the money, and I accept that it is our responsibility also to ensure...
...revolutionary will this be? If car sharing is to have a national impact on congestion, it must surmount a basic paradox: everyone hates traffic and smog, but few people are willing to give up their cars. In the U.S., as the saying goes, you are what you drive. And a half-century of highway subsidies has only fueled the sense of entitlement. According to a poll on traffic by TIME, ABC News and the Washington Post, only 10% of those surveyed who have access to mass transit actually use it regularly. "There's a stigma to not owning...
...trip was exhausting, but helped make up for Harvard’s notorious neglect of career preparation. For those who wanted to write, illustrate, direct, produce, compose, sing, and act, Harvardwood provided the ultimate crash course in intimidation and invincibility. Robert Kraft, president of Fox Music, summed up the paradox well...
...like the Great Communicator, Carson was a paradox of warm and cool, a man who made millions of Americans feel they knew him and yet was an enigma even to close associates. He was zealously private and distant to most, always approachable, rarely approached. Carson was in danger last week of posthumous teddy-bearization, with eulogists praising him as "calm" and "gentle." That wasn't even true of his TV persona--he laced his humor with sarcasm and sexual danger, and he batted Ed McMahon about like a piñata. In private Carson was standoffish and in his marriages admittedly...