Word: dumb
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...undoing of the prosecutor's case. By early 1984, investigators concluded that 369 of the 400 children interviewed had been abused. MacFarlane's technique seemed Pavlovian: emotional rewards to the children who accused the teachers, rebuffs to those who did not. "What good are you? You must be dumb," she said to one child who knew nothing about the game Naked Movie Star. MacFarlane recorded stories of children digging up dead bodies at cemeteries, jumping out of airplanes, killing animals with bats. When asked to point out molesters while driving around the city, children fingered community leaders, store clerks...
...Difference Principle should have a powerful intuitive appeal for citizens of a democratic society. Since none of us can control the random factors of genetics, family background, and plain dumb luck that determine our earning power and financial resources, it seems clearly unjust to let the disadvantaged "lose" in an economic lottery which no one has any power to avoid...
...character as they would have seemed only a few months ago. The Panama invasion marks the latest, but far from the first, stage in a monumental transformation of George Bush: from a President whose overriding imperative during his initial months in office was to avoid doing "something dumb," to a self-confident chief mapping a bold and individual -- if not always prudent -- foreign policy that he is quite willing to back with military force...