Word: absurdity
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...brink of war, the world suffered a spectacular outbreak of foolishness last week. Few countries or institutions were spared. The absurd adventures of the Bush Administration, the British, the French and the Guineans have been widely reported. Donald Rumsfeld's latest act of indecent exposure - he insulted our closest ally, Britain - was duly noted (but publicly ignored, once again, by the President, who seems not to mind such behavior). Assorted Europeans, celebrities and the New York Council worked themselves into a fatuous lather over the arrogance of American power. And American conservatives blamed it all on the U.N. "As each...
...swapping fishing stories. (“Check out the size on this baby!”) As for me, I don’t trust myself enough to own an expensive gadget that contains all of my personal information. And using PDAs to take notes in class? Absurd! For the past four years, I’ve been using the Winnie-the-Pooh student planner and ten-cent spiral notebooks of the Mead Corporation, and they’ve never steered me wrong...
...what better way to show it than a well-groomed hand? Open-toe shoe season seems woefully far off, but dainty feet need to look good even when no one can see them. Unfortunately, a manicure-pedicure combo starts at $50 everywhere in the Square, a price absurd even for royalty. Sunny Nails in Central Square is far more reasonable, and has massage chairs (pedicurists at Pure Line and Sasha’s Skin Care both twist your feet and rest them on their laps). Near the Quad, Fancy Fingers is a deal...
...Stone Jr. ’45—have done nothing in their professional lives, so far as we can tell, that would indicte them as bigots. The Staff applauds the Association of Black Harvard Women for sending the right message to these individuals, but it is, in fact, absurd to ask anyone for a written statement of their commitment to diversity without any evidence of wrongdoing or intolerance. We’d encourage the women’s groups involved to rethink their attack on Daniel, Houghton and Stone. It is doomed to the failure that such an ethically...
...entire campaign to force Augusta National Golf Club into admitting female members is absurd. Augusta is a private club, and is thus free to craft whatever membership policies it chooses. The Staff’s shrill complaints are misguided and irritating: people should be free to associate with whomever they choose without obnoxious criticism from newspaper editors...