Word: paradoxical
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...about performance. So while I am thrilled that the world is flocking to India, and pleased that Mittal is straddling the global steel business, I sometimes wonder why it is that Indians are more successful outside of India than at home. My fear is that unless we confront this paradox, we will be no more than a bulk market for canny foreigners, a country whose biggest success stories will always lie across the ocean...
...Like Jarecki’s 2002 film, “The Trials of Henry Kissinger,” “Why We Fight” is an exploration of the paradox of American foreign policy: namely, our willingness to sanction preemptive aggression, targeted killings, torture, and a host of other evils in the name of peace and democracy...
...find myself today the leader of a nation that is living a paradox. We are isolated in our immigration laws and trade tariffs, but global-minded in our foreign policy and corporate reach; we have the strongest armed forces in history, and yet our military is bogged down in Iraq by tireless insurgents; our economy is the largest and most important in the world, but its current stability hinges precariously on oil prices , terrorist threats, and a soaring trade deficit...
...cruel paradox of Hollywood actors is that they work in a fickle, money-obsessed industry in which reputations rise and fall overnight, yet success in the business comes from being sensitive, vulnerable and laying one's self bare before the camera. The resulting meltdowns-from Marilyn Monroe's to Robert Downey Jr.'s-are legendary and have created a booming aftermarket in therapists and therapies designed to help actors maintain peak performance in the face of depression, anxiety, stage fright, creative blocks, narcissistic disorders, substance abuse and all the other ills their profession is heir to. In the 1970s, actors...
...answer to that essay test suggests a paradox that may play out on Capitol Hill as the Judiciary Committee opens hearings for a Supreme Court nominee for the second time in five months?after nearly a dozen years with none at all. Supporters and former clerks affectionately describe Alito as nerdy?more academic but also less polished than John Roberts, who addressed the committee without notes on his way to confirmation in September as Chief Justice. Yet Administration officials say they are certain that Alito will attract fewer votes?in the committee and later in the Senate?than did Roberts...