Word: trade-offs
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Thernstrom says that there is a trade-off between having faculty regularly monitor student progress, as the study suggests, and treating undergraduates as adults.
Massive system failures dramatize the trade-off that occurs whenever a high- tech system replaces a low-tech one. Because most electronic systems are thoroughly interconnected, their failures tend to be all-or-nothing affairs. They do not, as computer scientists put it, degrade gracefully; they crash. Moreover, what is...
Professor Blumenthal is wary when he laments the "deglandularization" of youth, that no one kisses "(dry or wet)," that we write Mac-poetry. He has reason to be so. Professor Blumenthal wants us to understand that he has thought this through, that this is wisdom, that this is reasoned. But...
A suit filed by the A.C.L.U. resulted last month in a modification of those tactics. Visitors may now obtain guest cards allowing them to stay in a building for as long as two weeks. And housing agents and police have agreed to stop house and body searches. But the sweeps...
For many reporters and editors, that is a necessary trade-off in order to enjoy the benefits of the profession. "When you decide to become a journalist," says the Post's venerable political reporter and columnist David Broder, "you accept a lot of inhibitions that come with the responsibility of...