Word: wrongfulness
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...picked up at Harvard, a place where the primary fear is of failing—at anything, ever. The corollary of the anxiety about failure is a willingness to do almost anything to make an endeavor seem successful. No matter if acknowledging our minor mistakes, like my choosing the wrong roommate, could dramatically increase our happiness...
...Irish tune on which Fair Harvard is based. So, after four years of discussions and vigorous debate in alumni journals, the greater Harvard community settled on the new opening verse: “Fair Harvard! We join in thy jubilee throng.” They got it wrong...
...others cared at all. I had to kick and scream to get my journalism school to make calls on Mohammed’s behalf. Was I asking the wrong questions, or did nobody really care? What I learned was that there was no safety net in place, no default call to arms that journalists around the world would heed and come to aid a brother. I’ve had to call governments, embassies, Congresspeople, all on my own, and I’m afraid I haven’t done a good enough job as far as Mohammed...
...What should we do about rising economic inequality? Answering this question inevitably involves difficult value judgments and tradeoffs. But approaches that inhibit the dynamism of our economy would clearly be a step in the wrong direction. To be sure, new technologies and increased international trade can lead to painful dislocations as some workers lose their jobs or see the demand for their particular skills decline. However, hindering the adoption of new technologies or inhibiting trade flows would do far more harm than good over the longer haul. In the short term, the better approach is to adopt policies that help...
...faculty could agree), but it also introduced Harvard undergraduates to different cultures, to ethical reasoning, and to more scientific knowledge. The new general education program adopted last year (in a country in which anything that is 30 years old needs to be replaced, even when there is nothing grievously wrong with it) carries forward the work of the Core—so that it aims, in fact, not only at making Harvard students good citizens of the U.S., but citizens of a shrinking world...