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However, the current problem with the Core is basically a paradox of the big and the small. The more popular a class, the bigger the student population, and the smaller the chance each individual has to talk to the professor, or even to see clearly what he looks like...
Throughout his nine years teaching "Ec 10," Professor Martin Feldstein, who may well call this paradox a typical "trade-off," has seldom known what is going on down there in the 900-strong audience when he was standing in the dim light on the stage of Sanders Theatre...
That may seem like a paradox, but Clinton, Maraniss shows us, is complicated. He is thoughtful and sensitive about sexuality. Gay friends of the president recall how they were able to express feelings about their sexuality to Clinton and no one else. Yet Clinton's own sexual behavior is hardly exemplary. As governor of Arkansas, Clinton did, in fact, use state troopers to arrange sexual liaisons...
Tragic romantics let ideals dissipate their lives. The realm of the possible for them is at once infinite and unachieveable. Always waiting for perfection to arrive or always working adamantly and vainly for it, their expectations of life are never tempered by concession to reality. Tragic romantics are a paradox: they are eternally blissful in themselves and eternally tortured by the world...
...book] is based on a paradox: that trueequality of opportunity would stratify us worsethan ever," Gould said...