Word: soundness
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...latest addition to the Trump oeuvre is much like the Donald himself: a unique blend of hubris and charm. "When I do a deal, it's a reflection of my astuteness as a businessman," he boasts in one of his more modest asides. At their worst, Trump's platitudes sound as if they came out of fortune cookies. ("Wisdom will come provided you give it a chance to develop.") But who can argue with a guy who sent Bernard Madoff packing when the latter came around looking for money: "I had enough going on in my own businesses that...
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...VOID is that empty time between 5am and 8am every night where there’s no one on gchat, no sound but your roommate’s blissful snoring, and nothing to think about besides the work you’re not getting done. But you’re not alone, FlyBy is here to guide you through...
...notions of honor and character to most Harvard students sound old-fashioned, if not completely absurd. Yet, at one point, such concerns formed the center of a truly moral education. Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics listed “greatness of soul,” or “magnanimity,” among the principal moral virtues—as the “crown” of the virtues, in fact, without which the other moral virtues cannot properly exist. For one who exemplifies all the moral virtues—an ideal toward which men of a previous...
Roosevelt was a presidential overachiever - and his swift, take-charge method of governing was exactly what an ailing, Depression-weary nation needed in 1933. After delivering one of the most famous Inaugural speeches in presidential history - does the phrase "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" sound familiar? - Roosevelt had been in office barely 24 hours when he declared a four-day bank holiday and drafted the Emergency Banking Act, which helped calm a financial panic that was quickly spiraling out of control. By the time he hit the 100-day mark, Roosevelt had instituted the "fireside...