Word: wrongfulness
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...could accuse Willie Walsh of being downbeat in the face of adversity. "Being the ceo is great," says the boss of British Airways with a chuckle. "You get all the credit. And you get to blame other people when things go wrong." He's joking. He has to be, for if he lived by this credo, he would have been pointing his finger nonstop in recent months...
...paddies in a mountainous Chinese village. Part of a man-made wetland connected to the school's water system, the plants filter liquid waste, just as real wetlands do with rainwater. It's an engineering marvel, but Sidwell student Patricia Solleveld, 15, doesn't want you to get the wrong idea. "It doesn't smell at all," she says. Not only that, says Alejandro Alderman, 14, but the wastewater filtered through the wetland is clean enough to drink. "But D.C. regulations don't let us," he says. "Which is kind...
...know something is wrong when the New England Patriots face stiffer penalties for spying on innocent Americans than Dick Cheney and George Bush...
...that outweigh any potential gain. They may also fear the psychological penalties: if your team wins but people think it cheated, it's harder to do a victory dance around the office watercooler. But fearing the consequences of cheating is a far cry from opposing it because it's wrong. When the refs go to review a close play, fans don't sit there thinking, I hope they'll make the right call. They pray that the call goes their way. According to a 1999 study by psychologists at Murray State, a significant minority of fans--if guaranteed anonymity--would...
...signals the beginning of years more of promise and excitement. They’re thrilled just to be here, and so they cheer all week long at things that upperclassmen find passe.I’m not writing this to say, “What the hell is wrong with you, upperclassmen, that you can’t be like the freshmen?” Because the freshmen won’t be like freshmen for very long. In a few months they’ll be Harvard students like everyone else, and many will gain a cynicism and sarcasm...