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...film, Plummer turns to his best friend Duff, played by Tom Green, for plans that are “so dumb they are brilliant” to raise the large amount needed to keep his promise to his niece—mostly gross-out slapstick comedic schemes with little financial reward...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Stealing Harvard' Opening A Flop | 9/17/2002 | See Source »

Michael O'Leary, president of Europe's hottest no-frills airline, Ryanair, based in Dublin, got to know Bonderman in 1996 when he "was looking for dumb companies that didn't realize they were on to a good thing. He kind of raped us," says O'Leary, chuckling. "He got 20% for pretty much nothing. Sold us in '97 and made a fortune." The $42 million that Bonderman and his partners invested in Ryanair's initial public offering of stock increased sevenfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There A Doctor On Board? | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...jowly friends with thin dead hair sang Happy Birthday in their horrible ruined voices and we sat eating aged beef and heirloom tomatoes with a dry but experienced Chardonnay and old pals woofed about how happy and busy they are in retirement and gave me dumb birthday cards ("Welcome to the Incontinence Hotline ... Can you hold, please?") and a cake blazed up like the Hindenburg and some people I knew back when they were fun told me how good I look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crankiness in Decline, Says Old Guy | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...only summer song that really is available as a single is Nelly's Hot in Herre, which is about being available and single. Nelly raps about how hot it is and how everyone should take his clothes off. It's very catchy and very dumb, but then, no dumber than killing off the single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinning in Its Grave? | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...close in on him, U.S. forces would need to land an inspired bit of intelligence on the more precise whereabouts of the Taliban chieftain--or else benefit from more dumb luck than they have had so far. Why not just invade and scour the area where the locals say he is roaming? "It's strong Taliban country," notes a senior U.S. military official. A blind search would be too dangerous to undertake for just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Hunt for Mullah Omar | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

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