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Hyman Bookbinder, a longtime leader of the American Jewish Committee, declared, "Many of us feel that what Pollard did was a mistake, wrong, a crime, a sin . . . and what the Israeli officials did was wrong to initiate and even dumber to continue." Even normally pro-Israel U.S. legislators were embarrassed by Pollard's protestations that he had a "moral obligation" to spy for Israel. Such statements, said Florida Democratic Congressman Lawrence Smith, "are deeply distressing to American Jews, particularly those in the Government or close to it." On the other hand, Smith added, "much of the furor comes from circles...
...cockney chimneysweep's top hat that could have been stolen from Charles Nelson Riley's Hoodoo himself. Shepherd dominated the stage, bounding forth to let the kids up front tousle his hair and producing a series of guitar sounds clever enough to overcome many of the Gurus dumber lyrics...
...since then, many of Chase's movies have been falling down with him. While the novelty and stupidity of the first Vocation made it mildly successful and slightly humourous, it was certainly not fit for a sequel. European Vocation, less new and considerably dumber than the original, makes it all only too obvious: the sight of Chevy Chase and his family falling down in various countries is not inherently funny...
Even with the steep overhead, smart buildings have no trouble attracting tenants. To stay competitive, owners of older, dumber structures are retrofitting them, bringing in computers and sensors and tearing out walls and ceilings to install the wiring necessary to raise their building intelligence quotients. The Park Avenue Atrium in New York City, for example, was stripped down to its structural steel during remedial reworking...
...result, Great Whites seem to be responding to boom times in their food supply by producing larger litters more rapidly. And though Great Whites normally avoid the risk of attacking humans, some scientists suspect that the fish may mistake humans in wet suits for seals. Says McCosker: "Sharks are dumber than goldfish...