Word: paradox
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...modern playground for New York City's rich or connected and a hub for the international media, art and film crowd. "I like spaces that plow their own course, irrespective of the fashion," Crawford says. "I wanted to make Soho House feel spontaneous, cozy, sexy, uplifting and relaxed. The paradox I like to work with is combining something extremely modern with something familiar...
...Class size is obviously an issue, and we’re obviously aware of the fact,” Harris says. “But you have this peculiar paradox where students complain about these big classes [but still take them...
...will eventually reunify with a country they consider alien. The KMT's Yunlin chief, Huang Shang-wen, knows how his party can regain votes: "For us to win elections, we need to lean toward independence." But that would sacrifice the KMT's core supporters. Hung on the paradox, Huang is drafting his resignation letter...
...unites a melee of political commentary and sardonic jeering. Each of the four chapters taps into a different part of the jilted contemporary culture Thurston constructs, and any given page guarantees at least one laughable sentence and a dozen opportunities to take a closer look at the appalling paradox that is the American media...
...lesson of Churchill now haunts the office of Bush political strategist Karl Rove. For something not completely dissimilar seems to be happening to George W. Bush. Since just after the capture of Saddam, Bush's ratings have been slumping. And this is less surprising than it appears. The paradox of the war against terrorism is that the more the President succeeds, the more politically vulnerable he gets. The fewer the terrorist incidents, the more remote the fear, the less necessary the war seems and the more dispensable the war President appears. If he responds to this by insisting that...