Word: perfection
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...book. But “White Teeth” changes once Smith takes up the mantle of the new generation, the products of cross-cultural fertilization. Smith provides a snapshot of Archie’s daughter Irie writing feverishly in her diary. Her depiction of overwrought adolescence is pitch-perfect: “8:30 P.M. Millat just walked in. He’s sooo gorgeous but ultimately irritating! Tight jeans as usual. Doesn’t look at me (as usual, except in a FRIENDLY way).” Once the new generation, Irie and Millat, becomes old enough...
However, the process of creating the legislation Pelosi worked so hard to pass is less than perfect and in dire need of reform. The fact that few legislators had actually read the contents of the House bill prior to its passage and the sheer haste of the bill’s composition are detrimental to our system of governance. Legislation that as impactful and permanent as this ought to be carefully deliberated upon and debated, not hastily patched together to meet artificial deadlines...
Like most UC innovations, this isn’t a perfect system. One still has to go through the several web pages to actually reserve a room, but FlyBy thinks its a start. “It’s an important start to solving the problem with room reservations on campus,” wrote Hysen. “Long term, the UC is pushing for a centralized online system to do the actual reservations...
...NGOs [and] charities, ought to be run like businesses, [with] the exception that the profit goes to help people,” said Higgins. “[But] there’s a tendency sometimes when you’re talking about charity to accept less than perfect results because our intentions are good. But I think at the end of the day this does a disservice to the people we’re trying to help...
...near crippling blow to a young Democratic presidency but also cost the party its majorities in the House and Senate. And most important, it left the country with a dysfunctional health care system that 15 years later costs more and covers millions fewer. "It's not important to be perfect here," Clinton told reporters after his private lunch with the Democratic Senators. "It's important to act, to move, to start the ball rolling. The worst thing to do is nothing...