Word: paradoxes
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THOUGH CONVICTED of rape last June, Harvard-affiliated doctors Arif Hussain. Alan Lefkowitz and Eugene Sherry apparently can still officially practice medicine. The reasons for this amazing paradox: the review process for convicted doctors is so beset by red tape and cumbersome regulations--and the state licensing board is so underfunded--that many physicians more qualified for jail than office hours can continue practicing medicine indefinitely...
...privileges. But it also has a responsibility to act when larger rights and values--like that of a truly integrated University community, in which the individual's opportunity for inter group mingling is great--are at stake. Circumscribing those chances in the name of individual liberty seems a peculiar paradox indeed. But sadly it may be the inevitable result of an administration so overly concerned with short-term student quiescence that it overlooks the more lasting benefit--to the individual and the institution--of a richer community...
...suspect, from his undergraduate editorials and from the course of his life, that Roosevelt would not have wanted his birthday celebrated in entirely a political fashion, and so we must comment on the peculiar paradox his centenary witnesses: a nation eager to celebrate the memory of man whose legacy this same nation has only recently repudiated. Repudiated by electing a president and a Congress who have little compassion and much class consciousness; who would sully the memory of brave men who fought other, noble wars by engaging themselves in brutal repression abroad; who would reduce government from a friend...
...result is a tension and a paradox. On the one hand, inefficiency, stagnation and alienation are the inevitable accompaniments of the centralization, elitism and repression that are necessary to carry out the first order of business: the preservation of power. On the other hand, the political system is well designed to be impervious to the consequences of the economic failure and social demoralization that are built into...
Actualy, most Italians do not seem concerned about whether the economy dips the government falls or the shootouts take place in the Prime Minister's Chigi Palace. Italy is a living paradox: the more its political and economic life deteriorates, the more its citizens seem to enjoy la dolce vita. As distress from terrorism or corruption grows, ordinary Italians are withdrawing into individualismo, which means ignoring the social structures and doing one's own thing, and familismo, or pulling back into family togetherness. Such universal disengagement does not shatter the nation. Instead, it keeps Italy functioning remarkably well...