Word: foolish
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...Henault-Tosi (donning the dubious title of “wine consultant”), might actually help me understand the rage behind the clumsy “New Age” producers of “designer” wines from the various sub-regions. Alas, I was quite foolish. But all was not lost. This faux pas is a lesson for every Harvard man: woe to he who deigns to venture outside the delightful Yard cloister that shields him from the unseemly. Notwithstanding my minor indiscretion, it was a chance to, eyes shut, luxuriate in the Tuscan bliss that...
...pecking order. They are kings of their respective castles, showered with all the attention that would have been appropriate for a victorious army of yore. This phenomenon has its reasons: manliness, according to Tom Wolfe, developed from the "culture of the warrior." The qualities of ferocity, tenacity and foolish pride that served mercenary men in days of the very yore still run thick, if unacknowledged, in male veins. Women can fight, sure, but they will never be as pig-headed as men. They will never sport the male ego. They will never be as obnoxious--presumably Wolfe believes women will...
...women are ambitious. At other colleges, where women study teaching or nursing, Wolfe told his surprisingly docile Harvard audience, they don't actually major in those subjects: "They major in their boyfriends; they minor in nursing." Not so, he says, for the men. At Harvard, however, it would be foolish to say the women major in their boyfriends. Success comes first for both sexes, and if ever it was doubted whether women have the capacity to compete with men--pay attention, Pat Buchanan--Harvard explodes the myth. But every Harvard man, and woman for that matter, will have to decide...
...problem is now 50 years old. Baseball's precipitous decline is more recent. It is the result of two baleful new developments. First, star players don't stay with their teams. With free agency, the great players move around, making it impossible--indeed, almost foolish--for a fan to invest hopes and dreams and even interest in zillionaires who carpetbag at the drop of $20 million...
Still, Protein Design remains well up from where it traded in December, as does the group. Many expect biotech stocks to rally again in coming months as investors rotate out of overplayed Internet stocks and get past the foolish remarks from President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who recently urged researchers striving to map the sequence of the human genome to share their findings...