Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upset. None of them are going to be passed over for those highly competitive jobs in investment banking and consulting because Harvard is now ranked third. You won't be rejected by a top graduate school because of the U.S. News list. And if prospective students are dumb enough to pick a college based on its rank in a magazine, we don't need them here anyway. Students at Harvard and other schools should eat their pride, stop complaining and concentrate on their educations...
...Ferguson from just around the block--/ (I can't stand this crock of schlock!)/ The Town Police make sure you never see yourself a bum./ The Litter Agents sweep Offstage the smallest crumb./ The cleanliness can numb you; where'd they stash away the scum?/ We're not dumb; it's in the slum...
...wrong I was." Making street rounds, Sandra Davis, founder of the mediation service Mothers Against Gang Wars, has begun showing Williams' books to gang members. "I almost have to get physical with them to get the books back," she says. But some publishing professionals are less impressed. "These books dumb down the issue so much that I don't think they respect the situation as it really is," says Roger Sutton, editor in chief of the Horn Book Magazine in Boston. "Kids know that life is more complex than these books would have you believe." And Sergeant Wes McBride...
...Clinton, both declined To bash him for the welfare bill he signed. Then Hillary held forth with great aplomb: Apparently she's mainly Chelsea's mom. Her husband values every child he meets, Including those the bill puts on the streets. It's family this time, you dumb galoot, Unless it's running hard against poor Newt...
...best score--an enterprise that needs caution and compromise--but for that near unattainable ideal, the perfectly struck golf ball, which requires oneness with the universe. That a foolhardy opportunity to achieve that state arises on the last hole of the Open is the kind of bad dumb luck he's used to; this guy's been playing out of the existential rough all his life...