Word: wrongfulness
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...Well, I was wrong again, but could you really blame...
...said.“In law, you can be disbarred. Well, how about in our business?” The answer, Allison said, is that there is no formal way of holding intellectuals responsible for their ideas, no matter how badly they get them wrong. Politicians and presidential candidates who supported the Iraq War have been held publicly accountable for their votes, but academics advocates of the war have not faced the same kind of scrutiny, said Allison, the director of the Belfer Center for Science in International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. A DREAM DEFERRED Only weeks after...
...served as the director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—to politics. He returned to his native country in 2005 and rose to prominence in the opposition Liberal Party. This August, Ignatieff wrote an article, “Getting Iraq Wrong,” in which he recanted his support for the war. It was one of the first times an intellectual had publicly held himself accountable for his stance on the Iraq war. But the article, a lengthy rumination on the nature of judgment, rubbed many people the wrong...
...Well, I was wrong...
...constantly fails] this type of uprising is inevitable. It's not a question of if, but when." The protestors, says Sangay, are not rejecting the Dalai Lama's call for dialogue and negotiations, but Beijing's refusal to take negotiations seriously. "It's not that the Dalai Lama is wrong," says Sangay. "It's that the Dalai Lama's approach is right but that the partner is not willing and the people see the Dalai Lama being taken for a ride...