Word: fool
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...chief executive officer of Gillette (a Ropes and Gray client whose account Burr helps handle). During his years on the governing board. Burr says he avoided personally handling any legal work for the University, citing an old lawyer's adage. "An attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client...
...Mary Marecek, a counselor at the oldest women's shelter in Massachusetts. "We want them to get over the hope that the ideal marriage may still come out of it." Yet a hopeful woman, trying to make a go of a not-so-good marriage, is not always a fooL There are those in the field who?like the Ellen Jamesians, the self-mutilating feminists of The World According to Garp?seem too quick to find in wife abuse a confirmation and dramatization of sexism, a bloody cartoon of male oppression...
...sheer volume of machines is clogging the market. Because of limits on shelf space and trained personnel, most computer stores can handle only three or four brands. Admits Sandow Ruby, the president of Tech Hi Fi, a chain with 65 outlets: "No one likes to look like a fool in front of his customers...
...weeks in Dallas. At first, though, the Idaho-born actress may have pressed a bit too hard for a convincing Dixie lilt. She listened to tapes of deep-fried drawls and had long conversations with Southerners in her neighborhood. Says Hemingway: "For a week I made a total fool of myself trying to speak Southern...
Ghiselin has used some of the funds to travel to coral reefs in the Pacific, and to "fool around" in the Darwin archives at Cambridge University. In fact, Ghiselin decided to give Cambridge $5,000 to help preserve the archives, and he also donated $10,000 to the University of Utah, where he was a visiting scholar, for a series of lectures on evolution. Says Ghiselin: "I've become sort of a philanthropist myself. It allows me to share the wealth...