Some looked at the president and saw distance, fecklessness, insufficiency.
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He let it fail lest fecklessness seem to bring inadequate retribution.
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A recent expenses-claims scandal compounded the chamber's reputation for fecklessness.
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At first, Austin scorns Lee's fecklessness and Lee scorns Austin's bourgeois prissiness.
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The government's fecklessness extends to Egypt's most pressing problem: its overvalued currency.
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So why do we have to be victimized by his fecklessness, his ignorance?
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The substance of what he said accurately described the fecklessness of his party.
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The Democrats' fecklessness, in other words, did not flourish in a partisan vacuum.
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Yet the main reason the government is in a pickle is its own fecklessness.
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But the close finish also masked the fecklessness of the offense in his absence.
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It was an untenable position, made worse by the fecklessness of the Obama presidency.
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Eye-rolling about millennial fecklessness is a stock-in-trade of press and media.
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And this critique, emphasizing both corruption and fecklessness, remains potent in left-of-center circles.
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How they got this way is a story of profligate populism, political fecklessness and mismanagement.
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It is easy to say that the problem here is Republican fecklessness or Democratic disunity.
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Finally, it's dismaying to see the fecklessness of those on the left supporting third-party candidates.
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With the proverbial, well-earned reputation of artists for laziness, greed, selfishness, nastiness, irrelevance, fecklessness, and fickleness.
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But for sheer fecklessness it's hard to top the House's response this week to the Zika virus.
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Infuriating as this latest maneuver is, Democratic fecklessness on the subject of climate change is nothing new.
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Germany resists shared liabilities, fearing it will be left to pay the bill for the fecklessness of others.
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Their fecklessness encouraged Pfizer and other firms to pursue complicated deals where the main payoff is tax avoidance.
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But while the dialogue often has a comic crackle, the characters' fecklessness is less charmingly kooky than exasperating.
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Reason requires the resilience of those who realize, like Milosz, how easily it is betrayed by fear and fecklessness.
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That the Jungle existed in the first place testifies not only to their desperate resourcefulness, but to Europe's fecklessness.
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The Zaydi Shia Houthi rebels accused the president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and his government of corruption and fecklessness.
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PONDER the dire state of infrastructure in America and some other advanced economies, and their governments' fecklessness boggles the mind.
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MALKIN: And it is a sign of beltway GOP fecklessness that we&aposve got Mitch McConnell once again saying wait.
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The cross-country skier Beckie Scott has spoken out repeatedly on athletic doping and on the fecklessness of international organizations.
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Mr Renzi has promised a country accustomed to political fecklessness and volatility that his reforms will bring stable, effective governance.
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Wherever he can, he exposes the seeming hypocrisy and fecklessness of Western democracies, blurring the line between fact and fiction.
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If you accede to the rule of a teen monarch, then you have to tolerate his capriciousness, ignorance, bigotry, and fecklessness.
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Thus, the "crazy guy" strategy will only reinforce the fecklessness and irresponsibility of America's leadership, without providing any leverage in negotiations.
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Those who rely solely on conventional military deterrence or the fecklessness of the international community (Saddam, Gaddafi) are rolling the dice.
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They remain friends through World War II, despite Olmo's Marxist skepticism of Alfredo and Alfredo's fecklessness in the face of Fascists.
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The President-elect rightly called out House Republicans' fecklessness and misplaced priorities over his favorite medium, leading to a near immediate repeal.
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The crisis exposed the depth of the divide between creditor and debtor countries: northern voters simply will not pay for fecklessness elsewhere.
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Unwilling to risk a backlash against a controversial step forward, the party had ended up with a backlash against its own fecklessness.
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Voters complain endlessly about Albany's fecklessness, yet they send the same people back to the State Senate and Assembly year after year.
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All right, perhaps not "grown up," since we're still talking about a narcissistic con artist of adolescent fecklessness and zero self-knowledge.
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Yet for all his fecklessness, Ian clings to the idea that charity is the right conduct for those burdened by privilege and wealth.
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Despite his fecklessness, Johnson expected to be made the Captain of School, the head of the scholars' house at Eton, and duly was.
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That's exactly what they did in Iowa, and they did it because the establishment decided, through years and years of fecklessness, to let them.
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She left the right after researching surging individual bankruptcies, which turned out to be caused not by fecklessness, but ill health and other misfortunes.
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European fecklessness — such as dealing with Iran, poor military readiness and the EU's inability to build consensus into action — has contributed to the problem.
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Flip-flopping and fecklessness is par for the course in Washington, and Americans elected Republicans because they were ready for a change of course.
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But none highlighted corporate incompetence or government fecklessness quite like the 2017 hack of Equifax, which exposed the financial data of 145 million Americans.
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Republican claims of Obama's foreign policy fecklessness were at least offset by the enthusiasm of voters who were glad Obama was undoing the Bush doctrine.
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But if Sanders supporters think Democratic fecklessness is the main reason they're not getting the change they want, they're missing the forest for the trees.
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Johnson has played with his country, treating it like one of his many dalliances, with a sloppiness and fecklessness no wit or charm can excuse.
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If Democrats do run with the forgiveness of student debt as a core issue, the other ear – taxpayers frustrated by fiscal fecklessness – will most certainly grow.
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To them, Trump's utter fecklessness is an opportunity: It means that with enough "access to the candidate," you can win any dispute over policy or strategy.
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His fecklessness led the Tea Party base that had swept him and his colleagues to power to grow even more disenchanted with the Republican congressional leadership.
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The article included a scathing assessment of corruption and general fecklessness throughout Mr. Assad's military, and it called militia allies from Iran and Hezbollah equally suspect.
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Many Slovaks hoped that Mr. Matovic, with his combative style, would stand firm against our country's endemic corruption and the fecklessness of the traditional political parties.
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Mr. Heisbourg said the "fecklessness" of 2013 had been recognized and interpreted in numerous capitals, not just Paris, as a low point for American power and influence.
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But he also surely bet that Trump's fecklessness and the United States' strategic alliance with Saudi Arabia, an oil producer and enemy of Iran, would protect him.
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Moore ran to Strange's right on certain issues — immigration, guns, God — and wed that critique to one about the fecklessness of McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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Democrats, despite their characteristic caution and fecklessness, have begun to speak candidly about Trump, but their status as the minority party renders them nearly irrelevant to Trump's fate.
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Opinion Columnist Where politicians are concerned, especially aging and garrulous ones, it may be a mistake to attribute to strategy what can be chalked up to simple fecklessness.
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Past efforts to enact a new ISIS-related authorization of military force, by Senator Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, and others, have been stymied because of congressional fecklessness.
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The biggest technology company in the world showed the world its values more than a half-century ago, with a courage that makes their current fecklessness look particularly embarrassing.
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The crushing finale of Carter's presidency, the 444 days when American diplomats were held hostage in Iran, demonstrated his essential humanity even as it cemented an image of fecklessness.
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Posted in one of the grayest of the Soviet satellites, Putin entirely missed the sense of awakening and opportunity that accompanied perestroika, and experienced only the state's growing fecklessness.
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Perhaps Sisi (and other U.S. friends like Saudi Arabia, which has also signed arms deals with Russia) are simply hedging their bets against U.S. fecklessness, amply demonstrated during Obama's presidency.
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And there is of course the long shadow of past events — Aaron's fecklessness with money, his frittering away of a family fortune, Daniel's desperate illness at the age of 18.
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But fecklessness in the presidency can be as destructive as malice, and not just to the country: A disastrous chief executive can do devastating damage to his own political ideas.
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Patrick Mulvey does get the character's strange combination of fecklessness and charisma just right; he moves genially from adventure to adventure without building much of a life along the way.
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Jerry Brown of California and Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, was a bright spot in a week dominated by atmospheric fury in the Carolinas and political fecklessness in Washington.
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The financial panic of 1857 and subsequent depression, the splintering of the Union and the later exposure of rampant corruption inside the executive branch added to the sense of Buchanan's fecklessness.
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They have held weekly strategy meetings to chart an investigative course focused less on the personal sins of the president than on the harm wrought by his administration's atrocious policies and operational fecklessness.
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The ambush by costumed, painted men is frightening enough to scare off his intrepid human companion, but his fecklessness in trying to fend them off suggests the possibility that they're guests rather than hosts.
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In the midst of the crisis, we need more of what Jiang is bringing, and a whole lot less of the presidential fecklessness and Trump Team racism that puts us all at greater risk.
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The picture resonates because it combines two forces many sense at work — Trump's will to power and the fecklessness of the institutions meant to stop him — into one future everyone fears: autocracy in America.
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But at this point, it seems more likely that his fecklessness will provide them with a very different, and perhaps more enduring legacy: the recognition that they must learn to manage Iran without American help.
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By which I mean that the city's plight today — its exposure to Putin's whims and a revived Assad's pitiless designs — is a result of the fecklessness and purposelessness over almost five years of the Obama administration.
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Yet thanks to her hard work and Trump's fecklessness, Clinton ended up displaying all the traits that men are traditionally supposed to have for the presidency—the steadiness, the unflappability, the steeliness under pressure and assault.
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This is much more than a replay of Ronald Reagan appeal to the patriotism of union workers who were fed up with the fecklessness of Jimmy Carter's response to the taking of U.S. hostages in Iran.
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Even the venerable Mr. Cooper can't make Marrow coherent in his fecklessness, and a subplot in which a retired teacher returns to the school to lead a seminar in "thinking" has the subtlety of a shoehorn.
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The other half is his White House staff, who are much more committed to their positions—and see their boss' fecklessness as an opportunity to advance their own agenda, often with uncertain presidential support and chaotic results.
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State Department officials had thought Pompeo's move to the agency in April 2018 would be a welcome antidote to what they viewed as the bureaucratic fecklessness of Tillerson, given Pompeo's unfettered access to Trump and their close relationship.
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Ironically, NATO also encourages fecklessness among its members in ways that can be likened to what financiers call the "moral hazard" phenomenon, in which excessive insurance, offered for an ostensibly good purpose, promotes risky behavior by those insured.
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Distracting attention from impeachment surely played a role, too, based on the view that ending "stupid endless wars" is generally a political winner — at least until the consequences of our geopolitical fecklessness are again felt fatally at home.
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The conclusion to the fight was not one which left either man satisfied, and really just further reflected the fecklessness of the New York State Athletic Commission, but the action for the best part of two rounds was cracking.
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At this point, then, major Republican initiatives are bogged down for reasons that have nothing to do with the personality flaws of the tweeter in chief, and everything to do with the broader, more fundamental fecklessness of his party.
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On October 17th William McRaven, a retired admiral who oversaw the raid against Osama bin Laden in 2011, wrote an op-ed that contrasted military virtues with Mr Trump's fecklessness, and urged Democrats and Republicans to replace the president.
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Germany's twin fears of inflation and fiscal fecklessness, which arguably have held back recovery in the euro zone after the 2007-08 crisis, have roots in a series of 20th-century economic calamities, dating back to the hyperinflation of the 1920s.
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But they relied on both sides being able to control the anger that they were stoking, and on both sides being able to convince their voters that all of the corruption and fecklessness in Washington was because of the other party.
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Editorial As surely as there are camels' backs and straws to break them, moments arrive when citizens say they've had enough, when they rise up against political leaders who do not speak for them and whose moral fecklessness imperils lives.
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He has yet to resort to extrajudicial violence — except, of course, for encouraging his acolytes to beat up protesters at rallies — and his efforts to undermine the rule of law have had only mixed success, in part due to his own fecklessness.
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If the argument is that we are sending a fatal signal of fecklessness to friend and foe alike, why were so many liberals prepared to give Barack Obama a pass when the al-Assad regime violated his chemical red line in 2013?
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"To love and selfies!" young women exclaim, toasting one another at a restaurant, and there are times when the movie feels almost too punitive for its own good—as though the parents, in their moral fecklessness, deserved to be stripped of their offspring.
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One of the depressing aspects of the rise of authoritarian parties like Hungary's Fidesz and Poland's Law and Justice has been the fecklessness of their opposition — disunited, disorganized, unable to make an effective challenge even to unpopular autocrats as they consolidated their power.
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They savaged the right-leaning National Review with #NRORevolt and ridiculed establishment Republicans such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio by saddling them with the #cuckservative hashtag ("cuckservative" being a portmanteau of cuckold and conservative and meant to underscore the perceived fecklessness of these candidates).
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That's just Russia: From the Pacific Rim to the Middle East, revisionist powers will set out to test Trump's capacity to handle surprise, hostile actors will seek to exploit the undoubted chaos of his White House, and our allies will build American fecklessness into their strategic plans.
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"His outlook has always been on the fecklessness of overregulation by big government," Mr. Ginsberg said, adding that the two "would spend countless hours" talking about what they saw as the foolishness of Federal Election Commission actions to "regulate the unregulatable" — that is, political campaign speech.
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From here spring ideas like a shrunken "neuro", a currency shared by responsible northern Europeans shorn of southern fecklessness, or a "mini-Schengen", an idea floated by Mr Dijsselbloem in which the current 26 members are reduced to a rump of five: the three Benelux countries plus Germany and Austria.
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As a result, insulin prices have commanded a central spot in the political debates over health care, revealing the way that corporate greed, government fecklessness, and a broken insurance system have combined to result in deaths that should be entirely preventable in an economically advanced country like the United States.
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Sunday's test was a "precisely-timed spectacular," said Peter Hayes, director of the US-based Nautilus Institute, "the kind we've come to expect from Kim Jong Un." "(The test) was clearly aimed to put pressure on China and to expose the fecklessness of Tillerson's threat to somehow stop the regime," he said.
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Then, with the aid of machines, he more or less roofied her, impregnated her with a version of himself, and had her memory wiped: Carol Strickland, a comics historian who wrote the brilliant essay,"The Rape of Ms. Marvel", points out that George Pérez's art just adds to the fecklessness of this issue.
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The first was that Russia-United States relations have deteriorated thanks entirely to the fecklessness of the Obama administration (and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) and the actions of Democrats who are unable to accept that they were bested by one of the greatest political campaigns in history in the 2016 election.
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The khals collectively represent a distilled, pure-grade dose of the savage aggression that has torn this world apart — they promised an almost cartoonish level of rape and cruelty and ended up as ash, showing in the process the ultimate fecklessness of bluster, dumb strength and braggadocio in the face of true transcendent power.
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Specifically, it was recorded by a Garmin dashboard camera inside a fire truck belonging to the Dunmore Rural Fire Brigade, one of the many local volunteer teams left, amid the fecklessness of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's government, to more or less single-handedly fight what may well be the largest-yet climate catastrophe visited upon an affluent, developed country.
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Mr. Mueller's interest in criminalizing lies and misdirections "within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United States," as Mr. Cohen's charging document states, is an admonition to anyone who has testified on Russia before Congress — a body, despite its recent fecklessness, that, at least to Mr. Mueller, is meant to provide oversight of the executive branch on behalf of all Americans.
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If Stone's version does ultimately turn out to be true, then it would register as a striking indictment of the board's fecklessness toward Confederate sympathizers, who have hardly earned the sort of deference such a settlement implicitly shows them: Two such individuals from a different group, Heirs to the Confederacy, were charged in April with urinating on and defacing a slave memorial on campus.
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It would need to go after her, instead, at the intersection of policy and character — by linking the Bernie-Hillary difference on financial reform to the sordidness of the Clinton Foundation's global fund-raising, for instance, or by tying her recklessness with State Department emails to the fecklessness of the Libya intervention, and then linking that intervention to the issue that helped cost her the Democratic nomination in 2008, her Iraq-era hawkishness.
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The urge to change the world is normally thwarted by a near-insurmountable barricade of obstacles: failure of imagination, failure of courage, bad governments, bad planning, incompetence, corruption, fecklessness, the laws of nations, the laws of physics, the weight of history, inertia of all sorts, psychological unsuitability on the part of the would-be changer, the resistance of people who would lose from the change, the resistance of people who would benefit from it, the seduction of activities other than world-changing, lack of practical knowledge, lack of political skill, and lack of money.
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