Word: paradoxical
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...Monday Gordon got to make his case, and a majority of Justices may agree with him. As desegregation orders are lifted across the country and school districts struggle to remain integrated, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed to a potential paradox of the Jefferson County suit. "What's constitutionally required one day gets constitutionally prohibited the next day?" she pondered. "That's very odd." But the newest members of the Court, Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed skeptical of such open-ended social engineering. And Justice Anthony Kennedy, who could be the swing vote in this case, worried...
...there's a suggestion of paradox in those two achievements--a mixture of classiness and looseness, of discipline and danger, of dedication and recklessness--Winslet doesn't cop to it. They seem to her as natural partners as her frank language and posh accent. The secret to nude scenes, which she says she hates, is establishing "a relationship with the director where you can say, 'Look, I'd really rather they didn't see my [British slang for private part],' or 'I've got a nasty mosquito bite on my left bum cheek. Can we not shoot that low please...
...really comes back to the annual recruiting charade’s enduring paradox: how the corporate job frenzy can be so amusingly vacuous and yet loom so large in seniors’ post-graduate options that investment banks, consulting firms, and hedge funds comprise over half the Office of Career Services’ list of recruiters...
...page paper due tomorrow—with the emptiness that a friend’s departure causes in one’s heart and mind. There’s no use in blaming life, or fighting with God, that’s not the way to solve the paradox...
...police "are overwhelmed. They are fighting the Taliban with no support, with one magazine [of ammunition] between them. Sure, they call in the coalition forces, but they take 24 hours to arrive. How are they supposed to provide security under those conditions?" On top of this is a paradox at the heart of ISAF's strategy: a decision to overlook poppy cultivation, even though the opium trade is a central prop of the Taliban. But an eradication program would suck ISAF into a grinding war with locals who have no other way to earn a living. All that leaves NATO...