Word: fool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headline in the daily El Tiempo seemed to say it all: ONCE AGAIN THE MAFIA MAKES A FOOL OF COLOMBIA. The paper was denouncing the release from prison last week of Billionaire Jorge Ochoa Vasquez, 38, reputedly a leader of a crime cartel that supplies 80% of the cocaine consumed in the U.S. Ever since Ochoa was arrested at a roadblock on Nov. 21, Washington and Bogota had been negotiating over his extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on drug trafficking charges...
...carrying a single lily in his hand was not simply to throb with pleasure but to be observed doing so. News of Wilde's Oxford eccentricities preceded him in the world at large. When he met a friend outside a theater, he overheard someone say, "There goes that bloody fool Oscar Wilde." Wilde said quickly, "It's extraordinary how soon one gets known in London...
...Baked back home, this lemon- and vanilla-flavored cake is based on a recipe Dunsavage's mother developed after being beguiled by the original on a trip to the Big Apple. The verdict from this aficionado of the genre: not bad, but a bit too sweet and creamy to fool connoisseurs...
...knew, Hart said, that many politicians would view his candidacy as uncontrollable ego. "But I'm not a fool," he said. It is an expression Hart uses often these days. He wants badly to alter his reputation for poor judgment. "Look," said Hart, "if I'm a joke, let the people say that. I'm willing to submit myself to that jury. I am not an unstable person. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think there was something serious out there...
...Gary Hart is a professional; he has run for President before; he should know the taboos and totems of the trade. Didn't he understand that in the unwritten rules of political engagement there is a codicil that bars from the presidency any married man who has made a fool of himself in public with a 29-year-old model? What about his September promise not to hover around the other six candidates like "some Dickens figure"? A presidential campaign demands money, organization and delegate slates; all Hart has is a handful of volunteers and more than $1 million...