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...which comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s character first appeared, thrives on idiocy and prejudice. At its best, the show is a hilarious and biting social commentary on society’s bigotry and absurdities. Its foolish victims feel perfectly comfortable revealing their prejudices to some dumb and irrelevant foreigner, or else are too polite to disagree with him. For the most part, they have only themselves to blame for their humiliation...
...Small Business Development Center Network, through which retired professionals advise start-ups like NEU Magazine as well as established businesses seeking to grow.They also sought advice from people currently working in the publishing industry.“You ask questions as you go, you pretend you’re dumb, and then you take the information and run with it,” Matthews says. “You learn a lot how to weasel information out of people, because no one wants to help you with your career because that means you’re competition...
...only about 30% of anything I've ever heard him say. I also question the house logic that a Ford victory would have represented some sort of great achievement for African Americans. Even if he won, the sun would still come up; we'd still have to deal with dumb bosses, intractable kids and spouses who talk past us. So I was apathetic about a Ford victory. But it's hard to take him losing like this. I'm skeptical of anyone who pins their misfortune exclusively on the color of their skin. But in Harold Ford's case...
Smartphones here, smartphones there-how about a dumb phone? This week I tested the Jitterbug, a phone designed for the parents of baby boomers, a nice way of saying the only people who may not yet have cell phones. It?s the opposite of a so-called smartphone-far from push e-mail servers and multimedia text messages, this phone comes pre-loaded all the contacts you?ll ever need, and voicemail is optional. I said ?dumb? but in truth, this simple phone may be one of the smartest designs on the market...
...decides to throw a dinner party to celebrate the publication of his Nietzschean empowerment/philosophy text. Invited guests include: Hal, the biologist (Simon N. Nicholas ’07); his wife Sian, the “newsbabe” (Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08); and Wynne, the dumb blonde (Julia L. Renaud ’09). It soon becomes apparent from Paige’s neurotic preparations and treatment of the guests as they arrive that she has ulterior motives. As the night goes on, conditions both inside and outside the house worsen, allowing a view of everyone?...