Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Progress Paradox Why, if we're doing better, do we feel worse...
...best way to honor the dead is to vindicate their sacrifice by winning the war so they will not have died in vain. And this war will be won only when Iraqis are convinced that America, while grieving, will not retreat. This requires--and the paradox is cruel--muting public presidential displays of grief until the war is done...
...paradox of al-Qaeda in the two years since 9/11 has been that while the efforts of U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have battered its core transnational networks, al-Qaeda as a movement or an idea - as distinct from a narrow clandestine organizational network - has actually grown. Analysts believe the international intelligence and security cooperation has severely impeded al-Qaeda's ability to conduct highly sophisticated transnational terror operations such as the attacks in New York and Washington, but that Bin Laden's movement has adapted by morphing into a far more decentralized entity relying principally on the structures...
...undergraduate admissions’ Garden Street offices seems concerned about the drastic decrease in students seeking early spots at Harvard. Why such calmness in the face of such a fall? Isn’t anyone worried that interest in Harvard has waned? The answer to the apparent paradox is that Byerly Hall’s administrators can hardly be surprised by the decline: After all, they engineered it themselves with a needlessly restrictive change in policy last April...
...paradox began in 1869 when Charles W. Eliot, pedigreed son of the mayor of Boston whose namesake House would become synonymous with elitism, made a pledge to the American underclass...