Word: fooled
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...allegations of fraud happen rarely--"about once every 10 years," one professor said. Professors say they routinely duplicate experiments and construct series of tests to build on one another so as to catch fraud or other errors. Faculty members said that the supervision of researchers by professors is not fool-proof...
...wreckage. The narrator of the superb title story cripples another Marine in a squabble during training, survives three tours of combat in Vietnam, then, overmatched in a prizefight and too stubborn to fall down, outpoints his opponent but suffers brain damage that leads to worsening epilepsy. "What a goddamn fool," he says of himself. He wrestles with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche without improving on this assessment. In Rome he has seen the statue of a broken-nosed, middle-aged gladiator. The fighter is seated, conserving his strength. "There is a slight look of befuddlement on his face," the narrator notes...
...must go on; Ike is there, all silky unspoken threat, to see that she fulfills her obligation to the man who found her, nursed her to stardom, gave her her name. He only wants her to sing the hit he has written for her, A Fool in Love ("You can't understand/ Why he treats you like he do when he's such a good man"). So, as she stands mute and trembling on the stage of the Apollo Theatre in 1965, Ike walks up to her and kisses her on the cheek. Softly. It's very sweet and utterly...
...born freshman Eden Jacobowitz was charged with racial harassment and threatened with probation for yelling, "Shut up, you water buffalo!" at a group of boisterous black women students outside his dorm. He denied any bigotry in the odd epithet, pointing out that it is Hebrew slang for an inconsiderate fool. On May 24, as the campus churned over the controversy, the women dropped the charges, but only after blasting the school for injustice...
...fluently, Oxford was a liberation. Though he did have minimal security protection, he was for the first time in his young life on his own. A wine fancier, he could walk into a liquor store and pick his own bottles. He could go to the laundry and make a fool of himself by letting suds flood the floor. When the winter turned harsh, he could tape his own windows or suffer the consequences. He made good use of his experience, writing a thesis on the Thames as a commercial highway during the Middle Ages. Later, he was to write...