Word: cluelessness
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...careless altruism. Donors like doing good deeds but aren't big on due diligence. Most don't realize USAgain operates for profit--at least not until they try to get a receipt for tax purposes--and business owners who agree to host the boxes are often just as clueless. "Never, never did they mention they were making money off of it," says Kathleen Murtz, who accepted a request from the company to place a bin outside her home-decor boutique in Lake Zurich, Ill. "If I had known they were going to sell the clothing for profit, I wouldn...
...truth." Nip/Tuck is a heightened version of the truth (there's an outlandish plot in the pilot involving a Colombian druglord), and it can be heavy-handed. But the show nicely complicates its morality--the "bad-guy" doctor is charming and perceptive, while the "good guy" is a clueless father and husband--and it's a timely, unsparing psychological look at, well, the psychology of looks. "All I want to do," Murphy says, referring to the J. Lo--inspired buttocks-implant fad, "is explore the reasons you would dislike yourself so much that you would have plastic dress shields shoved...
...University Health Services survey this year, we Harvard undergrads, less than wizards at love, strike out in the dating scene much more frequently than our peers at other colleges. Maybe Harry’s instruction on even getting a first kiss should be made into assigned reading for our clueless first-years...
...India can market its companies and expertise to the U.S. and take jobs away, surely it can provide CEOs to manage American companies at a fraction of the cost of existing executive salaries, perks and golden parachutes. How can company executives think that we shareholders and employees are clueless about the difference between top executives' compensation and that of the other employees? JOYE GROFF Raleigh...
...shopper can find anything from genuine Burmese images of the Buddha to Tibetan monastic furniture. Of course, there are also plenty of cleverly forged fakes so, as in most Asian antiquities markets, caveat emptor. With opium habiliments, shop owners don't always deceive their customers on purpose. Many are clueless as to what is real and what is a reproduction. For instance, if an "opium pipe" has a bowl made from wood or resin or anything else that's flammable, chances are it's a very cheap fake. Also, most pipes made of bone are reproductions, as animal bone...