Word: paradoxe
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Harvard on the surface appears to be different. After all, students everyday debate the merits of political ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, and socialism in various news papers and political organizations. Yet this seemingly obvious link to political action is misleading. Upon closer analysis, Harvard demonstrates the paradox of an intense political aura coupled with very little visible "real world" energy...
There is a paradox in all of this, in a world where by their actions, both incumbents and challengers have turned conventional thought topsy-turvy. Experience in government is a liability nowadays, not an asset. Contempt for Congress is a virtue, not an unpatriotic vice...
...York Times reveals, Murray begins his new book with a paradox. The success of America's ideal of equality, which has been promoted through equal opportunity, has effectively served to create a country of classes divided by intelligence. Meritocracy ensures inequality, as individuals become separated socioeconomically based on their ability to perform in the free market of the academy and the workplace...
...Cuba lives up to its promise to halt the 3,000-a-day refugee flow in return for 20,000 U.S. visas a year--would be talks on lifting the longtime U.S. embargo. U.S. officials downplay the possibility of lifting the three-decade-old embargo. "There is a paradox," the former Cuban Foreign Minister and longtime Castro aide said in New York City. "The embargo remains, the lack of contacts remains, but the agreement means that we have normal relations in one area." Alarcon said he's confident this progress will result in normalized relations in other areas...
...Woodstock '94 becomes a triumph of salesmanship over spirit, blame it on the curious times in which we now live. Hipness has become a national paradox, a special condition almost everyone seems to aspire to. And one that, thanks to a lot of shrewd marketing, almost everyone can fancy having achieved...