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...even dresses like one: tracksuit bottoms and a worn T shirt. But perhaps most important for the franchise, Tamahori is trying to think like a teen and make a film that appeals to that prized demographic. The best way to do that, the director says, is not to dumb down Bond movies but to make them smarter. "A lot of action movies are very lame because they ask you to just accept them for what they are," he says. "Teenagers are far sharper than that--and they don't like to be insulted...
...decisions in “Do, Dump, or Marry” with Kant, Marx and Nietzsche were totally dumb. You gotta do Marx...
...ultimatum to Saddam Hussein was a fast track to war only if the Iraqi leader had been dumb enough to make Don Rumsfeld's day. But as Arab diplomats like to point out, Saddam may be homicidal but he's not suicidal - and there were few surprises Wednesday when Iraq announced its acceptance of the Security Council's terms for new arms inspections...
...school so touchy of anything with non-politically correct overtones, students spout defenses against every stereotype from trailer trash to Muslim racial profiling in the same sentence that they call student-athletes “idiotic” and label them “dumb jocks.” There is also the fact that the Harvard athlete, like the Harvard cellist or the Harvard poet, contributes to rounding out the student body and protects Harvard from being populated entirely by people who spend their afternoons in the library...
...receive any advantages, especially compared to athletes at non-Ivy colleges. And, even at Harvard, for every jock who doesn’t do the reading, there is a stoner or a singer or a playwright who hasn’t done it either—dumb jocks are not the standard. The Harvard athlete should be praised, because unlike other students who join activities throughout high school and college for the sole purpose of putting them on an application, Ivy League athletes exhibit a level of maturity and dedication well beyond that of their peers.You do not play...