Word: foolish
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...Josh Edelman's Americanized, Beat Era Twelfth Night. Looking into the text, Edelman saw the opportunity for such an updated setting in the freewheeling idiosyncrasies of the characters. "They're all nuts, absolute nuts," he said. "The play seemed to me to have a kind of giddy (and ultimately foolish) individualism that only made sense to me in Northern California." To him, the wide-open world of the Beats and the Jazz Age provides the backdrop necessary for one of Shakespeare's more outdoor comedies...
...will buy the movies, the music and the Mattel toys once those corporations have made themselves infamous throughout the Internet for prosecuting and harassing children? Private censorship through the intellectual property system is disgusting, but when practiced against one's own present and future customers it is also foolish. Perhaps mobilized consumers, boycotting products made by companies that sue to censor young people, will help those companies learn the error of their ways...
...were young and foolish, but we were also right," said one of the members of the group...
...connected by trillions of synapses. No scientific problem compares to it. (The Human Genome Project, which is trying to read a long molecular sentence composed of billions of letters, is simple by comparison.) Cognitive neuroscience is arming so many brilliant minds with such high technology that it would be foolish to predict that we will never understand how the brain gives rise to the mind. But the problem is so hard that it would be just as foolish to predict that we will...
...want to spread their gospel beyond the Beltway. "The judge will always instruct the jury that they're only to base their judgment on the facts of this case and not accept any outside influence," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders. "But jurors are people, and it would be foolish to assume they're not influenced by the world around them. And that could include an intense lobbying effort by the tobacco companies...