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Women don't mind if a model is thin and beautiful, but if she's dumb or characterless, they're turned off. Not surprising, says Quinlan, because what women really want is something quite basic: respect. --By Janice M. Horowitz

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Women Want (to Buy) | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...know, it’s a curious thing,” he says. “It wasn’t really an asset, auditioning for commercials or soap operas. They kind of assume you to be a dumb and docile actor...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lithgow’s Artistic Insight | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

...They are thus essentially useless. As Gary Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s medical research committee, noted “[baseball’s new testing procedure is] more of an IQ test than a steroid test, because you have to be really dumb to fail...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, | Title: Strike Out Steroids | 4/29/2003 | See Source »

...don’t drink much, so I don’t play much beer-pong,” Bar Am says. But while he attributes most of his success to “dumb luck,” he also says that conditions were ripe for a novice’s victory: “A, the cups were smaller, B, there was a cross-wind, and…C, it was cold as shit...

Author: By J.b. Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drinking Games For Justice | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

...matter how cleverly presented, dumb ideas simply can’t be covered up by elegant prose. Arguing for denying an idea (Intelligent Design) a forum and then arguing that it is illegitimate because it has not been discussed in the forum of scientific publications is disingenuous at best...

Author: By Timothy Standish, | Title: May the Fittest Theories Survive | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

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